Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

• US 20100277491A1
• Filed: 04/23/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hiratsuka, Yosuke
• Application Number:
  US12/799,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20100277491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/581
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/128 Frame memory using a Synchronous Dynamic RAM [SDRAM]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/363 Graphics controllers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00161 Viewing or previewing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00167 Processing or editing H04N1/00196 - H04N1/00201 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00198 Creation of a soft photo presentation, e.g. digital slide-show
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32101 Display, printing, storage or transmission of additional information, e.g. ID code, date and time or title
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6086 by scene illuminant, i.e. conditions at the time of picture capture, e.g. flash, optical filter used, evening, cloud, daylight, artificial lighting, white point measurement, colour temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6091 by environmental factors, e.g. temperature or humidity H04N1/6086, H04N1/6088 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3252 Image capture parameters, e.g. resolution, illumination conditions, orientation of the image capture device H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3274 Storage or retrieval of prestored additional information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an image-effect determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of an environmental-information difference, an image effect that is to be provided, when an image data item that is a playback target is displayed, for the displayed image data item, the environmental-information difference being obtained by comparing an environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target with an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information items being associated with the corresponding image data items; and a display control unit configured to control, for display of an image data item, a display operation so that the image effect determined by the image-effect determination unit is applied.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image-effect determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of an environmental-information difference, an image effect that is to be provided, when an image data item that is a playback target is displayed, for the displayed image data item, the environmental-information difference being obtained by comparing an environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target with an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item that is a playback target being associated with the item image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target being associated with the image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target; and

a display control unit configured to control, for display of an image data item, a display operation so that the image effect which has been determined by the image-effect determination unit is applied.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image effect is an image effect in which a continuous or fixed visual change is generated for at least a time period that is one portion of a time period in which a still image is displayed.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit performs control so that the image effect is applied on a display screen by changing a display parameter while the still image is being displayed.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display control unit performs control so that the image effect is applied on a display screen by performing an image synthesis process on the still image while the still image is being displayed.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data item having a consecutive relationship is an image data item having a relationship in which the image data item is played back and displayed before or after the image data item that is a playback target and in which the image data item and the image data item that is a playback target are continuously played back and displayed.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image data item having a consecutive relationship is an image data item corresponding to a time information item indicating a time that is a time before or after a time indicated by a time information item corresponding to the image data item which is a playback target and that is closest to the time indicated by the time information item corresponding to the image data item which is a playback target.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a sequential-playback control unit configured to select, in accordance with a selection parameter, a plurality of image data items that are to be sequentially played back and displayed.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image-effect determination unit determines an image data item that was a playback target immediately before the image data item that is a playback target, as the image data item having a consecutive relationship, from among image data items which have been selected by the sequential-playback control unit so that the image data items are sequentially played back and displayed.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the image-effect determination unit selects the image data item having a consecutive relationship from among image data items that have been selected by the sequential-playback control unit so that the image data items are to be sequentially played back and displayed and from among image data items that have not been selected.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the selection parameter is a parameter for selecting a folder including an image data item.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the selection parameter is a parameter for performing selection in accordance with a time information item corresponding to an image data item.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the selection parameter is a parameter for performing selection in accordance with image contents of an image data item.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image-effect determination unit converts the environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target and the environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target into body-sensory environmental information items, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item that is a playback target being associated with the item image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target being associated with the image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, and determines, on the basis of a body-sensory-environmental-information difference that is obtained by comparing the body-sensory environmental information items with each other, an image effect for the image data item that is a playback target.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image-effect determination unit determines, on the basis of an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item, the environmental information item being associated with the image data item, whether an image effect is to be applied or not applied or determines a criterion for determining whether an image effect is to be applied or not applied.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image-effect determination unit determines, on the basis of image contents of an image data item, whether an image effect is to be applied or not applied or determines a criterion for determining whether an image effect is to be applied or not applied.

16. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one of an information item concerning an ambient temperature at a time of capture of an image data item, an information item concerning an external-light amount at the time of capture of the image data item, an information item concerning the time of capture of the image data item, and an information item concerning a place in which the image data item was captured is included in the environmental information item.

17. An image processing method comprising the steps of:

determining, on the basis of an environmental-information difference, an image effect that is to be provided, when an image data item that is a playback target is displayed, for the displayed image data item, the environmental-information difference being obtained by comparing an environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target with an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item that is a playback target being associated with the item image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target being associated with the image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target; and

controlling, for display of an image data item, a display operation so that the determined image effect is applied.

18. A program causing an image processing apparatus to perform an image processing method, the image processing method comprising the steps of:

determining, on the basis of an environmental-information difference, an image effect that is to be provided, when an image data item that is a playback target is displayed, for the displayed image data item, the environmental-information difference being obtained by comparing an environmental information item at a time of capture of the image data item that is a playback target with an environmental information item at a time of capture of an image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item that is a playback target being associated with the item image data item that is a playback target, the environmental information item at a time of capture of the item image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target being associated with the image data item having a consecutive relationship with the image data item that is a playback target; and

controlling, for display of an image data item, a display operation so that the determined image effect is applied.