DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20170018108A1
• Filed: 07/07/2016
• Published: 01/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Oda, Shinya
• Application Number:
  US15/204,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20170018108A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/07 Target detection

Abstract

A display apparatus including: an imaging unit; a first acquiring unit configured to acquire a photographed image obtained by photographing a plurality of devices by the imaging unit; a recognizing unit configured to recognize each device portrayed in the photographed image; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire information on an image processing function of each of the devices; and a display unit configured to display the photographed image and also, in a case where there is a combination of devices having a common image processing function from among the recognized devices, displaying an image indicating at least one of information on the combination and information on the common image processing function.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

an imaging unit;

a first acquiring unit configured to acquire a photographed image obtained by photographing a plurality of devices by the imaging unit;

a recognizing unit configured to recognize each device portrayed in the photographed image;

a second acquiring unit configured to acquire information on an image processing function of each of the devices; and

a display unit configured to display the photographed image and also, in a case where there is a combination of devices having a common image processing function from among the recognized devices, displaying an image indicating at least one of information on the combination and information on the common image processing function.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the second acquiring unit acquires, with respect to a device capable of switchably executing a plurality of image processing functions by changing settings, information on the plurality of image processing functions, and

in a case where there is a combination of devices having at least one image processing function from among the plurality of switchable image processing functions among the recognized devices, the display unit displays an image indicating at least one of information on the combination and information on the common image processing function.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit configured to set a device, which is included in the combination, so as to operate in the common image processing function.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising input unit configured to accept an input of an instruction from a user, wherein

in a case where an instruction from the user to set each device included in the combination so as to operate in the common image processing function is input, the setting unit sets a device included in the combination so as to operate in the common image processing function.

5. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein in a case where there are a plurality of combinations, the display unit displays for each combination an image indicating information on the common image processing function.

6. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recognizing unit recognizes each of the devices by analyzing an image of a marker included in each of the devices.

7. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second acquiring unit acquires information on an image processing function of each of the devices by analyzing an image of a marker included in each of the devices.

8. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a communicating unit configured to communicate with each of the devices, wherein

the second acquiring unit uses the communicating unit to acquire, from each of the devices, information on an image processing function of each of the devices.

9. The display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an input unit configured to accept an input of an instruction for specifying an image processing function from a user, wherein

in a case where there is a combination of devices from among the recognized devices of which the common image processing function is the image processing function specified by the user, the display unit displays an image indicating the devices that are included in the combination from among the recognized devices.

10. The display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein in a case where there is no combination of devices from among the recognized devices of which the common image processing function is the image processing function specified by the user, the display unit displays an image indicating that there is no combination of devices having the image processing function specified by the user as the common image processing function from among the recognized devices.

11. The display apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a third acquiring unit configured to acquire information from a storage apparatus that stores information on an image processing function of a prescribed device, wherein

in a case where there is no combination of devices from among the recognized devices of which the common image processing function is the image processing function specified by the user, the third acquiring unit acquires from the storage apparatus information on a candidate device which enables, by being combined with the recognized devices, a combination of devices having an image processing function specified by the user as the common image processing function to be obtained, and

the display unit displays an image indicating information on the candidate device.

12. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the plurality of devices include a plurality of display apparatuses,

the second acquiring unit acquires information on an image processing function of each of the display apparatuses and information related to a state of calibration of each of the display apparatuses, and

in a case where there is a combination of display apparatuses among the recognized display apparatuses having a common image processing function and calibrated so that display characteristics thereof are substantially the same, the display unit displays an image indicating the display apparatuses that are included in the combination from among the recognized display apparatuses.

13. The display apparatus according to claim 12, wherein in a case where there is a combination of display apparatuses which have a common image processing function and for which display characteristics can be made substantially the same by calibrating at least one display apparatus from among the recognized display apparatuses, the display unit displays an image indicating the display apparatuses that are included in the combination from among the recognized display apparatuses.

14. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second acquiring unit repetitively acquires information on an image processing function set to each of the devices, and

in a case where there is a change in a setting of the image processing function in at least any of the devices included in the combination based on the information that is repetitively acquired by the second acquiring unit, the display unit displays an image that notifies the change.

15. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein information on the image processing function includes information on settings of at least any of a size, a color format, gamma, a color gamut, and permission/inhibition of development of image data in image processing of at least any of displaying, recording, transmitting, and developing.

16. A control method for a display apparatus including an imaging unit, the control method comprising:

capturing an image with the imaging unit;

acquiring a photographed image obtained by photographing a plurality of devices by the imaging unit;

recognizing each device portrayed in the photographed image;

acquiring information on an image processing function of each of the devices; and

displaying the photographed image and also, in a case where there is a combination of devices having a common image processing function from among the recognized devices, displaying an image indicating at least one of information on the combination and information on the common image processing function.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions, which, in a case where executed by a computer, cause the computer to execute respective steps of a control method for a display apparatus including an imaging unit, the program causing a computer to execute:

capturing an image with the imaging unit;

acquiring a photographed image obtained by photographing a plurality of devices by the imaging unit;

recognizing each device portrayed in the photographed image;

acquiring information on an image processing function of each of the devices; and

displaying the photographed image and also, in a case where there is a combination of devices having a common image processing function from among the recognized devices, displaying an image indicating at least one of information on the combination and information on the common image processing function.