APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• US 20170111597A1
• Filed: 12/29/2016
• Published: 04/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakama, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US15/394,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20170111597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

An apparatus for communicating with an external apparatus through a network includes an image capture unit configured to capture an image of a subject, a superimposing unit configured to superimpose a character upon the captured image, a reception unit configured to receive color information indicating a color relating to the superimposed character, and a setting unit configured to set an outline color of the superimposed character based on the received color information.

Claims

1. An apparatus for communicating with an external apparatus through a network, the apparatus comprising:

an image capture unit configured to capture an image of a subject;

a superimposing unit configured to superimpose a character upon the captured image;

a reception unit configured to receive color information indicating a color relating to the superimposed character; and

a setting unit configured to set an outline color of the superimposed character based on the received color information.