DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS DISPLAYING IMAGE

• US 20140286619A1
• Filed: 03/20/2014
• Published: 09/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: NAKAGOME, Kouichi, KAWAMURA, Yoshihiro, MURAKAMI, Tomohiko, ONUMATA, Yuichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,679,383 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/262 using transform domain methods, e.g. Fourier domain methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image

Abstract

An image capture apparatus 1 is equipped with: a CPU 11 that acquires a plurality of images; a normalization unit 54 that performs normalization such that an area of at least one of a plurality of acquired images satisfies a predetermined criterion; and a display control unit 56 that performs control such that a plurality of images including the images normalized by the normalization unit 54 are displayed in an output unit 19.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of images;

a normalization unit that normalizes at least one image from the plurality of images such that the at least one image satisfies a predetermined criterion; and

a display control unit that performs control to display the at least one normalized image and at least one of the plurality of images except at least one normalized image in a display unit.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the normalization unit performs a correction such that any one of the position, the size, and the angle of the each of the plurality of images matches a position, a size, or an angle that is predetermined.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a first identification unit that identifies, from the plurality of images, the at least one image to be corrected,

wherein the normalization unit corrects the at least one identified image such that any one of the position, the size, and the angle of the area of the at least one indentified image matches any one of the position, the size, or the angle that is predetermined.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a second identification unit that identifies, from the plurality of images, at least one image to be corrected in accordance with a user operation,

wherein the normalization unit corrects the at least one identified image such that any one of the position, the size, and the angle of the area of the at least one identified image matches any one of the position, the size, or the angle that is predetermined.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image selecting unit that selects, from the plurality of images, one image to be used as a reference of a correction,

wherein the normalization unit, by using the selected one image as the predetermined criterion, normalizes images from among the plurality of images except the selected one image.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the normalization unit corrects the images among the plurality of images except the selected one image such that the images match any one of the position, the size, and the angle of the selected one image.

7. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of images are specific images extracted from a plurality of moving images.

8. The display control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an evaluation unit that evaluates an image from the plurality of images; and

an index generating unit that generates index corresponding to an evaluation result acquired by the evaluation unit,

wherein the display control unit performs control to display the index together with at least one of the plurality of images in the display unit.

9. The display control apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the index generating unit generates, as the index, histogram information by analyzing specific areas of the images, and

wherein the display control unit performs control to display the histogram information together with at least one of the plurality of images in the display unit.

10. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays the plurality of images in the display unit by a slide show mode in which one image is switched to another image among the plurality of images at a predetermined timings.

11. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit performs control to display a list of the plurality of images in the display unit.

12. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the normalization unit normalizes each of the plurality of images,

wherein the display control unit displays each of the plurality of images that are normalized by the normalization unit.

13. A display control method used by a display control apparatus, the display control method comprising:

acquiring a plurality of images;

normalizing at least one image from the plurality of images such that the at least one of the plurality of images satisfies a predetermined criterion; and

performing control to display at least one normalized image and at least one of the plurality of images except at least one normalized image in a display unit.

14. A non-transitory storage medium on which a computer-readable program is recorded, the computer-readable program causing a computer to perform functions as:

an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of images;

a normalization unit that normalizes at least one image from the plurality of images such that the at least one image satisfies a predetermined criterion; and

a display control unit that performs control to display the at least one normalized image and at least one of the plurality of images except at least one normalized image in a display unit.