IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, PORTABLE DEVICE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY FUNCTION, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20120032980A1
• Filed: 09/07/2011
• Published: 02/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suehiro, Masako
• Granted Patent: US 8,482,649 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/649
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• 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 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• 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 display device including a display that displays an image according to a piece of photography image data on a display screen based on plural pieces of photography image data stored in a storage unit, so as to display another image that includes photography attitude angle information that represents an attitude angle with an angle altered according to the attitude angle alteration amount with respect to an attitude angle which is represented by the photography attitude angle information of the image which is displayed.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a display that displays an image according to a piece of photography image data on a display screen based on plural pieces of photography image data stored in a storage unit, the photography image data including photography information, and the photography information including photography attitude angle information representing an attitude angle of a camera at a time of photography;

an attitude angle detection unit that detects an attitude angle of the display; and

a controller that, when the attitude angle detected by the attitude angle detection unit is altered while the image according to the image data is displayed, controls the display, based on the photography attitude angle information of the image displayed at the display and based on an attitude angle alteration amount obtained from the attitude angle detected by the attitude angle detection unit, so as to display another image that includes photography attitude angle information that represents an attitude angle with an angle altered according to the attitude angle alteration amount with respect to an attitude angle which is represented by the photography attitude angle information of the image which is displayed.

2. The image display device of claim 1, wherein the photography information further includes position information, and the controller controls the display, based on positional information of the image which is displayed, based on the photography attitude angle information of the image which is displayed and based on the attitude angle alteration amount obtained from the attitude angle detected by the attitude angle detection unit, so as to display another image that was photographed in a predetermined area with respect to the position information of the image which is displayed and that includes the photography attitude angle information that represents the attitude angle with an angle altered according to the attitude angle alteration amount with respect to the attitude angle which is represented by the photography attitude angle information of the image which is displayed.

3. The image display device of claim 2, wherein the predetermined region is alterable.

4. The image display device of claim 2 wherein, if there are a plurality of images each including attitude angle information that corresponds to the alteration amount of the attitude angle which is obtained from the detected attitude angle, the controller controls such that the images are displayed superimposed, in order, from the foreground, of closeness of distances between the respective photography positions represented by the position information of the images corresponding to the alteration amount of the attitude angle which is obtained from the detected attitude angle and the photography position represented by the position information of the image displayed at the display.

5. The image display device of claim 2, wherein the controller controls such that an indicator is displayed, the indicator indicating a direction in which a vicinity image is present, the vicinity image having been photographed in a vicinity of the photography position represented by the position information of the image displayed at the display.

6. The image display device of claim 5, wherein at least one of length, size and color of the indicator is altered in accordance with the magnitude of a difference between the attitude angle represented by the attitude angle information of the image displayed at the display and the attitude angle of the vicinity image, and the indicator comprises an icon that indicates the direction in which the vicinity image is present.

7. The image display device of claim 1, wherein the controller controls such that an image is displayed based on image data, the image data including a date and time of photography, and the date and time of the image data being within a predetermined alterable timeframe.

8. The image display device of claim 1, wherein, if there are a plurality of images each including attitude angle information that corresponds to the alteration amount of the attitude angle which is obtained from the detected attitude angle, the controller controls such that the image with the most recent photography date and time is displayed.

9. The image display device of claim 1, wherein control by the controller starts when the attitude angle of the display is altered by more than a predetermined value.

10. The image display device of claim 1, wherein control by the controller ends when a predetermined duration passes without the attitude angle of the display being altered.