IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20100272364A1
• Filed: 07/02/2009
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: LO, CHIH-PING, LEE, HOU-HSIEN, LEE, CHANG-JUNG
• Application Number:
  US12/496,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20100272364A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/190
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera

Abstract

An image editing system examines plurality of first images from a video input unit to obtain coordinates of key portion of a first image, and stores the coordinates of the key portions into a storage system. The image editing system further stores a plurality of second images, and reads the coordinates of the key portions and replaces portion of the first image corresponding to coordinates with the second image.

Claims

1. An image editing system, comprising:

a processor;

a storage system connected to the processor and storing one or more computerized instructions being executed by the processor, wherein the storage system comprises;

a detecting module to examine a plurality of first images captured by an image capture device to obtain coordinates of key portions of each of the plurality of first images;

a coordinate storing module to store the coordinates of the key portion of each first image in the storage system;

an image storing module to store a plurality of second images; and

a replacement module to read the coordinates of key portions of each first image in the coordinate storing module and replace portions of each first image corresponding to the coordinates of key portions of each first image in the coordinate storing module with the second image in the image storing module.

2. The image editing system of claim 1, wherein the storage system further comprises a selecting module operable to select which type of key portion of each first image is detected by the detecting module.

3. The image editing system of claim 1, wherein the key portion of each first image is a face.

4. An image editing method, comprising:

examining a plurality of first images captured by an image capture device to obtain key portions of each of the plurality of first image;

storing coordinates of the key portions of each first image;

reading the coordinates of key portions of each first image; and

replacing portion of each first image corresponding to the coordinates of key portions of each first image with a second image.

5. The image editing method of claim 4, wherein before the step “

examining a plurality of first images captured by an image capture device to obtain key portions of each of the plurality of first image”

further comprises;

selecting which type of key portion of each first image is detected.