IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120249584A1
• Filed: 03/30/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: NARUSE, Kenichi
• Application Number:
  US13/435,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20120249584A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An image processing apparatus, includes: a first acquisition unit to acquire a first image; a second acquisition unit to acquire a second image obtained by performing predetermined image processing for the first image; a compositing unit to generate a composite image composed of the first and second images that are combined to be superimposed on each other; a specifying unit to specify, based on a user'"'"'s predetermined operation of an operation input unit, a change region in the composite image whose composition ratio is to be changed; and a controller to change transparency of the upper one of the first and second images to change the composition ratio at which the compositing unit combines the first and second images in the change region specified by the specifying unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

a first acquisition unit to acquire a first image;

a second acquisition unit to acquire a second image obtained by performing predetermined image processing for the first image;

a compositing unit to generate a composite image composed of the first and second images that are combined to be superimposed on each other;

a specifying unit to specify, based on a user'"'"'s predetermined operation of an operation input unit, a change region in the composite image whose composition ratio is to be changed; and

a controller to change transparency of the upper one of the first and second images to change the composition ratio at which the compositing unit combines the first and second images in the change region specified by the specifying unit.

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

a display unit to display the composite image, wherein

the operation input unit includes a touch panel to detect a touch position at which a display region of the display unit is touched, and

the specifying unit specifies the change region based on the touch position detected by the touch panel according to a user'"'"'s touch operation of the touch panel.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller changes the transparency of the upper image in the change region based on how the user touches a region in the display region where the change region is displayed.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the controller changes the transparency of the upper image in the change region based on how the user touches a predetermined position of the touch panel.

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

a recording unit to record the composite image with the composition ratio of the first image to the second image changed by the controller.

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

a printing unit to print the composite image with the composition ratio of the first image to the second image changed by the controller.

7. An image processing method, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a first image;

acquiring a second image obtained by performing image processing for the first image;

generating a composite image composed of the first and second images that are combined to be superimposed on each other;

specifying a change region in the composite image whose composition ratio is to be changed based on a user'"'"'s predetermined operation of an operation input unit; and

changing transparency of the upper one of the first and second images to change the specified composition ratio of the first image to second image in the specified change region.

8. A recording medium recording a program for causing a computer of an image processing apparatus to function as:

a first acquisition unit to acquire a first image;

a second acquisition unit to acquire a second image obtained by performing predetermined image processing for the first image;

a compositing unit to generate a composite image composed of the first and second images that are combined to be superimposed on each other;

a specifying unit to specify, based on a user'"'"'s predetermined operation of an operation input unit, a change region in the composite image whose composition ratio is to be changed; and

a controller to change transparency of the upper one of the first and second images to change the composition ratio at which the compositing unit combines the first and second images in the change region specified by the specifying unit.