COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20170169541A1
• Filed: 12/07/2016
• Published: 06/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: FUNAMI, Atsushi
• Granted Patent: US 10,176,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10004 Still image; Photographic image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/16 Spatio-temporal transformations, e.g. video cubism
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/70 Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras camera calibration G06T7/80
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes

Abstract

A computer program product for being executed on a computer causes an information processing apparatus to execute a process including reading an image data item from an image storage unit, and reading object information from an object information storage unit in which the object information relating to an object shown in the image data item is stored in association with identification information for identifying the object; displaying, by a display device, the image data items that have been read and the object information; accepting a selection of the object based on the object information, and accepting a specification of a position of the object with respect to the image data item; and displaying, in association with each other, the specified positions of the objects that have the same identification information, among the objects shown in different image data items for which the specifications of the positions have been accepted.

Claims

1. A computer program product for being executed on a computer to cause an information processing apparatus to execute a process comprising:

reading an image data item from an image storage unit storing a plurality of image data items, and reading object information from an object information storage unit in which the object information relating to an object shown in the image data item is stored in association with identification information for identifying the object;

displaying, by a display device, a plurality of the image data items that have been read and the object information;

accepting a selection of the object based on the object information displayed by the display device, and accepting a specification of a position of the object with respect to the image data item displayed by the display device; and

displaying, in association with each other, the specified positions of the objects that have the same identification information, among the objects shown in different ones of the image data items for which the specifications of the positions have been accepted.

2. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein the displaying of the specified positions in association with each other includes expressing that the objects, which are shown at the positions displayed in association with each other in the different ones of the image data items, are the same.

3. The computer program product according to claim 2, the process further comprising:

displaying an indication information item indicating the object, at the position specified by the accepted specification, wherein

the displaying of the specified positions in association with each other includes displaying a line connecting the indication information items of the objects, which are displayed in the different ones of the image data items and which have the same identification information.

4. The computer program product according to claim 3, the process further comprising:

accepting input of a name of the object as one item of the object information, applying the identification information to the name of the object, and storing the name in the object information storage unit in association with the identification information, wherein

the displaying of the specified positions in association with each other includes reading, from the object information storage unit, at least one of the identification information and the name associated with each other in the object information of the object for which the selection has been accepted, and displaying the at least one of the identification information and the name together with the indication information item, when the selection of the object and the specification of the position of the object with respect to the image data displayed on by the display device are accepted.

5. The computer program product according to claim 3, the process further comprising:

recognizing at least one symbol that is handwritten in the image data item; and

acquiring a result of the recognition, generating the identification information, and storing the identification information and the at least one symbol in association with each other in the object information storage unit, wherein

the displaying of the indication information item includes displaying the indication information item and the at least one symbol around a location where the at least one symbol has been recognized in the image data item.

6. The computer program product according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

cutting off an image on a right end of the image data item and adding the cut off image to a left end of the image data item, when an operation of shifting the image data item in a right direction is accepted in a state where the image data item is displayed by the display device by equidistant cylindrical projection, and

cutting off an image on the left end of the image data item and adding the cut off image to the right end of the image data item, when an operation of shifting the image data item in a left direction is accepted in a state where the image data item is displayed by the display device by equidistant cylindrical projection, wherein

scenery of 360 degrees in at least a horizontal direction is captured in the image data item.

7. The computer program product according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

releasing a visibility reduction process performed on the image data item that has been input to the information processing apparatus, wherein

the releasing includes releasing the visibility reduction process only with respect to accepted coordinates when input of the coordinates in the image data item is accepted, and storing the image data item for which the visibility reduction process has been released in the image storage unit.

8. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the image data item is an omnidirectional image in which scenery of 360 degrees is captured, and

the displaying of the plurality of the image data items and the object information includes displaying the plurality of the image data items by equidistant cylindrical projection or spherically displaying the plurality of the image data items.

9. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the displaying of the plurality of the image data items and the object information includes:

displaying each of the plurality of the image data items in a cell in an area divided into the cells; and

changing the cell in which the image data item is arranged when an instruction to move the image data item from a movement source cell to a movement destination cell is accepted.

10. The computer program product according to claim 1, wherein

the image data item is an omnidirectional image in which scenery of 360 degrees is captured, and

the displaying of the plurality of the image data items and the object information includes rotating the plurality of the image data items by an amount of an accepted rotation instruction, when the rotation instruction to rotate the image data item in a horizontal direction is accepted.

11. The computer program product according to claim 1, the process further comprising:

accepting input of handwriting information with respect to the image data item, and displaying the handwriting information by the display device.

12. The computer program product according to claim 11, wherein

the displaying of the plurality of the image data items and the object information includes spherically displaying the handwriting information when the image data item is spherically displayed.

13. The computer program product according to claim 11, the process further comprising:

measuring a distance between two second coordinates based on a difference between two first coordinates, a difference between the two second coordinates, and a size of a measurement providing object shown in the image data item, the size of the measurement providing object being already known, wherein

the accepting includes accepting the two first coordinates input with respect to the measurement providing object by a pointing device and accepting the two second coordinates input with respect to the image data item by the pointing device.

14. A method for displaying images executed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

reading an image data item from an image storage unit storing a plurality of image data items, and reading object information from an object information storage unit in which the object information relating to an object shown in the image data item is stored in association with identification information for identifying the object;

displaying, by a display device, a plurality of the image data items that have been read and the object information;

accepting a selection of the object based on the object information displayed by the display device, and accepting a specification of a position of the object with respect to the image data item displayed by the display device; and

displaying, in association with each other, the specified positions of the objects that have the same identification information, among the objects shown in different ones of the image data items for which the specifications of the positions have been accepted.

15. An image processing system in which a terminal and an information processing apparatus are connected via a network, the image processing system comprising:

a reading unit configured to read an image data item from an image storage unit storing a plurality of image data items, and read object information from an object information storage unit in which the object information relating to an object shown in the image data item is stored in association with identification information for identifying the object;

an image display unit configured to send, to the terminal, a plurality of the image data items and the object information that have been read by the reading unit, and display the plurality of the image data items and the object information by a display device at the terminal;

a receiving unit configured to receive information accepted by the terminal, the accepted information including a selection of the object based on the object information displayed by the display device and a specification of a position of the object with respect to the image data item displayed by the display device;

an associating unit configured to associate the specified positions of the objects that have the same identification information, among the objects shown in different ones of the image data items for which the specifications of the positions have been accepted; and

a sending unit configured to send, to the terminal, the different ones of the image data items in which the positions in the different ones of the image data items are associated with each other, wherein

the terminal displays the different ones of the image data items.