Image processing apparatus, image processing method, recording medium and data signal providing image processing program

• US 7,016,596 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2001
• Issued: 03/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Itoh, Masaharu
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US09/829,949
• Publication Number:
  US 20020041753A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,805 Days
• Field of Search: 386/46, 386/52, 386/55, 386/68, 386/67, 386/69, 386/70, 386/81, 386/82, 386/107, 386/117, 386/1, 386/4, 386/6, 386/38
• US Class Current: 386/243
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums

Abstract

An image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in a recording medium, includes: a read device that reads out a plurality of sets of image information recorded in the recording medium; a display device that displays image information read out by the read device; a selection device through which any image information among the image information displayed at the display device can be freely selected; an output device that outputs image information selected by the selection device; and a control device that implements control to ensure that image information read out by the read device is not provided to the display device while image information is being output by the output device.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in a recording medium, comprising:

a read device that reads out a plurality of sets of image information recorded in the recording medium;

a display device that displays image information read out by said read device;

a list display device that displays a list of a plurality of sets of image information read out by said read device;

a selection device that selects any image information from the list of the plurality of sets of image information displayed at said list display device;

an output device that outputs image information selected by said selection device to outside of said image processing apparatus; and

a display control device that simultaneously displays the list of the plurality of sets of image information to said display device by said list display device and outputs the selected image information by said output device.

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

an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject; and

a recording device that records image information with respect to the image captured by said image-capturing device in the recording medium.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a switching device that selects either the image information with respect to the image captured by said image-capturing device or the image information read out from the recording medium for display at said display device.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the image information recorded in the recording medium is dynamic image information; and

a generating device that generates still image information to be displayed at said display device based upon the dynamic image information recorded in the recording medium is provided.

5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the image information output by said output device is dynamic image information; and

said display device displays the dynamic image information currently output by said output device.

6. An image processing method employed in an image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in an image information recording medium, comprising:

a read out step in which a plurality of sets of image information recorded in said image information recording medium are read out;

a display step in which the image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a list display step in which a list of a plurality of sets of image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a selection step in which any image information is selected from the list of the plurality of sets of image information displayed in said list display step;

an output step in which the image information selected in said selection step is outputted to outside of the image processing apparatus; and

a display control step in which simultaneously the list of the plurality of sets of image information in said list display step is displayed and an output of the selected image information in said output step is outputted.

7. A recording medium having recorded therein a program used in an image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in an image information recording medium, said program comprising:

a read out step in which a plurality of sets of image information recorded in said image information recording medium are read out;

a display step in which the image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a list display step in which a list of a plurality of sets of image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a selection step in which any image information is selected from the list of the plurality of sets of image information displayed in said list display step;

an output step in which the image information selected in said selection step is outputted to outside of the image processing apparatus; and

a display control step in which simultaneously the list of the plurality of sets of image information in said list display step is displayed and an output of the selected image information in said output step is outputted.

8. A data signal embodied in a carrier wave comprising a program used in an image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in an image information recording medium, said program comprising:

a read out step in which a plurality of sets of image information recorded in said image information recording medium are read out;

a display step in which the image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a list display step in which a list of a plurality of sets of image information read out in said read out step is displayed;

a selection step in which any given set of image information is selected from the image information displayed in said display step;

an output step in which the image information selected in said selection step is outputted to outside of the image processing apparatus; and

a display control step in which simultaneously the list of the plurality of sets of image information in said list display step is displayed and an output of the selected image information in said output step is outputted.

9. An image processing apparatus that reads out and outputs image information recorded in a recording medium, comprising:

a read device that reads out a plurality of sets of image information recorded in the recording medium;

a display device that displays image information read out by said read device;

an output device that outputs image information read out by said read device to outside of the image processing apparatus; and

a display control device that can switch a first display mode, in which the same image information is simultaneously supplied to said display device and said output device, with a second display mode, in which different image information is simultaneously supplied to said display device and said output device.