CAMERA ARRANGEMENT WITH IMAGE MODIFICATION

• US 20100289912A1
• Filed: 05/14/2009
• Published: 11/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Olsson, Stefan, Katz, Darius
• Application Number:
  US12/465,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20100289912A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2005/2726 for simulating a person's appearance, e.g. hair style, glasses, clothes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

A camera arrangement and corresponding methods are provided. The camera arrangement in an embodiment comprises circuitry to analyze a recorded image in order to determine a gesture and to decide on a modification of the image based on the identified gesture.

Claims

1. A camera arrangement, comprising:

a digital camera unit configured to digitally record at least one image,

and

analyzing circuitry configured to determine a gesture of a subject of the at least one recorded image and to decide on a picture modification depending on the determined gesture.

2. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said analyzing circuitry is further configured to modify said at least one image corresponding to the decided modification.

3. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said camera unit is further configured to record at least one further image, and wherein said analyzing circuitry is further configured to modify said at least one further image corresponding to said modification decided upon.

4. The camera arrangement of claim 1, further comprising a user input device, wherein said analyzing circuitry is further configured to decide on said modification based on an input received from the user input device.

5. The camera arrangement of claim 1,

wherein said analyzing circuitry is further configured to decide on said modification based on a selected image recording mode.

6. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said modification comprises replacing a portion of a recorded image with a portion based on previously stored image material.

7. The camera arrangement of claim 6, wherein said portion of said recorded image comprises a portion selected from the group consisting of a background of the recorded image, a clothes portion of a subject of the recorded image, and a frame portion of the recorded image.

8. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said modification comprises subjecting a portion of the image to an algorithm changing the appearance of the portion of the recorded image.

9. The camera arrangement of claim 8, wherein the portion of the recorded image comprises a face portion of a subject of the image.

10. The camera arrangement of claim 9, wherein said algorithm comprises an algorithm selected from the group consisting of a morphing algorithm and a blurring algorithm.

11. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said modification comprises a combined resize and recenter operation.

12. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said gesture is selected from the group consisting of a hand motion in front of a face of a subject of the recorded image, a drawing of a rectangle by a subject of the recorded image, a pulling of an ear of a head of a subject of the recorded image, a making of a plus sign with fingers of a subject of the recorded image, a salute made by a subject of the recorded image and a martial arts pose made by a subject of the recorded image.

13. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein the camera arrangement is a portion of an electronic device selected from the group consisting of a mobile phone, a portable gaming device, a personal digital assistant, a smartphone and a laptop computer.

14. The camera arrangement of claim 1, wherein said analyzing circuitry is configured to enhance a contrast of said at least one image prior to performing said analysis.

15. A method, comprising:

recording at least one image,

analyzing said at least one image to identify a gesture made by a subject of the at least one image, and

deciding on a modification depending on said identified gesture.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said modification comprises replacing a portion of a recorded image by a portion based on previously stored image material.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein said modification comprises performing an algorithm changing an appearance of a portion of a recorded image.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising enhancing a contrast of said at least one image prior to said analyzing.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising performing said modification with an image selected from the group consisting of said at least one image and a further recorded image.