IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM THEREOF

• US 20120120099A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ishizuka, Daisuke
• Application Number:
  US13/280,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20120120099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/620
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

Based on a first image and a second image among a plurality of images, a first region in the first image and a second region in the second image are specified. The first region in the first image and the second region in the second image has a correlation with each other. The first image and the second image are displayed based on the specified regions, and a layout for arranging the first image and the second image is determined in accordance with a user instruction via a display screen.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that determines a layout used when combining a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of regions into which one object has been divided, comprising:

a specification unit configured to, based on a first image and a second image among the plurality of images, specify a first region in the first image and a second region in the second image, the first region in the first image and the second region in the second image having a correlation with each other;

a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display the first region specified by the specification unit in the first image and the second region specified by the specification unit in the second image; and

a determination unit configured to determine a layout to be used in arranging the first image and the second image, in accordance with a user instruction via the display screen.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit enlarges a partial display region in the first image and the second image, and causes the enlarged display regions to be displayed on the display screen, the enlarged display regions including the first region and the second region.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit adds, to the first image and the second image, information indicating the first region and the second region, and causes the first image and the second image having the information to be displayed on the display screen.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a movement control unit configured to, in accordance with a user instruction, causes at least one of the first image and the second image displayed on the display screen by the display control unit to be moved on the display screen,

wherein the determination unit determines the layout to be used in arranging the first image and the second image, in accordance with positions of the images moved by the movement control unit on the display screen.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the specification unit specifies a similar regions in respective images of the plurality of images, the similar regions being regions that are similar between the first image and the second image.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit cause the display screen to display the first image and the second image in an overlapping manner such that the regions specified by the specification unit overlap each other, and

in accordance with the user instruction, the determination unit determines the layout used in arranging the first image and the second image.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output control unit configured to perform control such that the first image and the second image are output in accordance with the layout determined by the determination unit.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the output control unit performs control so as to display the first image and the second image on the display screen such that the first image and the second image are displayed in accordance with the layout determined by the determination unit.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the output control unit performs control so as to cause the first image and the second image to be printed by a printing apparatus such that the first image and the second image are printed in accordance with the layout determined by the determination unit.

10. An image processing method executed in an image processing apparatus that determines a layout used when combining a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of regions into which one object has been divided, the image processing method comprising:

specifying, based on a first image and a second image among the plurality of images, a first region in the first image and a second region in the second image, the first region in the first image and the second region in the second image having a correlation with each other;

causing a display screen to display the first region specified in the first image and the second region specified in the second image; and

determining a layout to be used in arranging the first image and the second image, in accordance with a user instruction via the display screen.

11. A storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image processing method executed in an image processing apparatus that determines a layout used when combining a plurality of images obtained by imaging a plurality of regions into which one object has been divided,

the image processing method comprising:

specifying, based on a first image and a second image among the plurality of images, a first region in the first image and a second region in the second image, the first region in the first image and the second region in the second image having a correlation with each other;

causing a display screen to display the first region specified in the first image and the second region specified in the second image; and

determining a layout to be used in arranging the first image and the second image, in accordance with a user instruction via the display screen.