Image display apparatus, image display program, image display method, and recording medium for recording the image display program

• US 7,317,458 B2
• Filed: 02/28/2006
• Issued: 01/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Wada, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bella; Matthew C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): RAHMJOO, MANUCHEHR
• Application Number:
  US11/364,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20060146065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 679 Days
• Field of Search: 345/590, 345/592, 345/593, 345/597
• US Class Current: 345/590
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/73 Colour balance circuits, e.g. white balance circuits or colour temperature control camera processing pipelines for colour balance H04N23/88

Abstract

An image display apparatus includes a display unit that arranges and displays display images of a plurality of original images in a plurality of display areas on a display so as to be comparable with each other, an operation input unit that sets a color temperature of the display image independently every display image or interlockingly with respect to the display images on photographing data or information on the color temperature set in the past, and a display-color correcting unit that generates the display image whose color temperature has been corrected on the basis of the setting by the operation input unit, displays the generated display image displayed in the display area on the display via the display unit, and corrects the color temperature of the original image so as to match that of the display image upon the storing operation.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of images in a plurality of comparison areas on at least one display, the image display apparatus comprising:

a reduced image display unit that displays, on the at least one display, a plurality of reduced images respectively corresponding to a plurality of original images;

an image display unit that selects a plurality of images from the reduced images displayed on the at least one display, and simultaneously displays display images of original images corresponding to the plurality of selected reduced images, in the plurality of comparison areas so that the original images of the selected reduced images are comparable with each other;

a color-temperature setting unit that selects whether;

a) a color temperature of each of the display images to be displayed in each of the comparison areas is independently set in each of the comparison areas, or

b) upon setting a color temperature of the display image in one of the plurality of comparison areas, a color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is interlockingly set with respect to a color temperature of the display image in at least one other of the comparison areas; and

a display-image correcting unit that generates the display image whose color temperature is set based on the setting of the color-temperature setting unit, and supplies the generated display image to the at least one display to display the generated display image in one of the comparison areas.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the color-temperature setting unit sets the color temperature of a display image displayed in a comparison area on the basis of color temperature information included in the photographing information on the original image.

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

an original-image correcting unit that corrects by the image display unit the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising:

an image storing unit that saves, in an image file, the original image corrected by the original-image correcting unit and the color temperature information of the corrected original image.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the color-temperature setting unit sets the color temperature of the display image on the basis of the color temperature information of the corrected original image stored in the image file, when the original image is that corrected by the original-image correcting unit.

6. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an original-image correcting unit that corrects by the image display unit the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

7. The image display apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising:

an image storing unit that saves, in an image file, the original image corrected by the original-image correcting unit and color temperature information of the corrected original image.

8. The image display apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the color-temperature setting unit sets the color temperature of the display image on the basis of the color temperature information of the corrected original image stored in the image file, when the original image is that corrected by the original-image correcting unit.

9. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the color-temperature setting unit sets the color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area on the basis of the color temperature selected from a plurality of predetermined color temperatures.

10. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the interlocking setting of the color temperatures is selected, the color-temperature setting unit sets the color-temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the plurality of comparison areas so that the color of a first part in the display image in the one of the comparison areas is equal to the color of a second part in the display image in another of the plurality of comparison areas.

11. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a color temperature display unit that displays by the image display unit the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the comparison areas, as color temperature information, on the at least one display.

12. The image display apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the color temperature comparison areas can switch display/no-display of the color temperature information on the at least one display.

13. An image display program for simultaneously displaying a plurality of images in a plurality of comparison areas on at least one display, the image display program doing the following:

displaying, on the at least one display, a plurality of reduced images respectively corresponding to a plurality of original images;

selecting a plurality of images from the plurality of reduced images displayed on the at least one display, and simultaneously displaying display images of original images corresponding to the plurality of selected reduced images, in the plurality of comparison areas so that the original images of the selected reduced images are comparable with each other;

selecting whether;

a) a color temperature of each of the display images to be displayed in each of the comparison areas is independently set in each of the comparison areas, or

b) upon setting a color temperature of the display image in one of the plurality of comparison areas, a color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is interlockingly set with respect to a color temperature of the display image in at least one other of the comparison areas; and

generating the display image, which is corrected from the original image on the basis of the selection of the color-temperature setting, and supplying the generated display image to the at least one display to display the generated display image in one of the comparison areas.

14. The image display program according to claim 13, wherein the color temperature of a display image displayed in a comparison area is set on the basis of color temperature information included in the photographing information on the original image.

15. The image display program according to claim 14, further doing the following:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

16. The image display program according to claim 15, further doing the following:

storing and saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image and the color temperature information of the corrected original image.

17. The image display program according to claim 16, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information of the corrected original image, stored in the image tile.

18. The image display program according to claim 13, further doing the following:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

19. The image display program according to claim 18, further doing the following:

saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature having been matched that of the display image and color temperature information of the corrected original image.

20. The image display program according to claim 19, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information on the corrected original image, stored in the image file.

21. The image display program according to claim 13, wherein the color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is set on the basis of the color temperature selected from a plurality of predetermined color temperatures.

22. The image display program according to claim 13, wherein when the setting of the color temperatures is interlockingly selected, the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the plurality of comparison areas is set so that the color of a first part in the display image in the one of the comparison areas is equal to the color of a second part in the display image in another of the plurality of comparison areas.

23. The image display program according to claim 13, wherein the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the comparison areas is displayed, as color temperature information, on the at least one display.

24. The image display program according to claim 23, wherein display/no-display operation of the color temperature information on the at least one display can be switched.

25. An image display method for simultaneously displaying a plurality of images in a plurality of comparison areas on at least one display, the image display method comprising:

displaying, on the at least one display, a plurality of reduced images respectively corresponding to a plurality of original images;

selecting a plurality of images from the reduced images displayed on the at least one display, and simultaneously displaying display images of original images corresponding to the plurality of selected reduced images, in the plurality of comparison areas so that the original images of the selected reduced images are comparable with each other;

selecting whether;

a) a color temperature of each of the display images to be displayed in each of the comparison areas is independently set in each of the comparison areas, or

b) upon setting a color temperature of the display image in one of the plurality of comparison areas, a color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is interlockingly set with respect to a color temperature of the display image in at least one other of the comparison areas; and

generating the display image, whose color temperature is set based on the selection of the color-temperature setting, and supplying the generated display image to the at least one display to display the generated display image in one of the comparison areas.

26. The image display method according to claim 25, wherein the color temperature of a display image displayed in a comparison area is set on the basis of color temperature information included in the photographing information on the original image.

27. The image display method according to claim 26, further comprising:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

28. The image display method according to claim 27, further comprising:

storing and saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image and the color temperature information of the corrected original image.

29. The image display method according to claim 28, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information of the corrected original image, stored in the image file.

30. The image display method according to claim 25, further comprising:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

31. The image display method according to claim 30, further comprising:

storing and saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image and color temperature information of the corrected original image.

32. The image display method according to claim 31, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information on the corrected original image, stored in the image file.

33. The image display method according to claim 25, wherein the color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is set on the basis of the color temperature selected from a plurality of predetermined color temperatures.

34. The image display method according to claim 25, wherein when the interlocking setting of the color temperatures is selected, the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the plurality of comparison areas is set so that the color of a first part in the display image in the one of the comparison areas is equal to the color of a second part in the display image in another of the plurality of comparison areas.

35. The image display method according to claim 25, wherein the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the comparison areas is displayed, as color temperature information, on the at least one display.

36. The image display method according to claim 35, wherein display/no-display of the color temperature information on the at least one display can be switched.

37. A recording medium for recording an image display program to simultaneously display a plurality of images in a plurality of comparison areas on at least one display, the recording medium for recording the image display program performing the following:

displaying, on the at least one display, a plurality of reduced images respectively corresponding to a plurality of original images;

selecting a plurality of images from the plurality of reduced images displayed on the at least one display, and simultaneously displaying display images of original images corresponding to the plurality of selected reduced images, in the plurality of comparison areas so that the original images of the selected reduced images are comparable with each other;

selecting whether;

a) a color temperature of each of the display images to be displayed in each of the comparison areas is independently set in each of the comparison areas, or

b) upon setting a color temperature of the display image in one of the plurality of comparison areas, a color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area is interlockingly set with respect to a color temperature of the display image in at least one other of the comparison areas; and

generating the display image, which is corrected from the original image on the basis of the selection of the color-temperature setting, and supplying the generated display image to the at least one display to display the generated display image in one of the comparison areas.

38. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 37, wherein the color temperature of a display image displayed in a comparison area is set on the basis of color temperature information included in the photographing information on the original image.

39. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 38, further performing:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

40. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 39, further performing:

storing and saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image and the color temperature information of the corrected original image.

41. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 40, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information of the corrected original image, stored in the image file.

42. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 37, further performing:

correcting the color temperature of the original image corresponding to the display image so as to match the color temperature of the display image displayed on the at least one display.

43. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 42, further performing:

storing and saving, in an image file, the corrected original image whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image and color temperature information of the corrected original image.

44. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 43, wherein when the original image is the corrected one whose color temperature has been matched that of the display image displayed on the display, the color temperature of the display image can be set on the basis of the color temperature information on the corrected original image, stored in the image file.

45. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 37, wherein the color temperature of the display image to be displayed in the comparison area can be set on the basis of the color temperature selected from a plurality of predetermined color temperatures.

46. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 37, wherein when the interlocking setting of the color temperatures is selected, the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the plurality of comparison areas is set so that the color of a first part in the display image in the one of the comparison areas is equal to the color of a second part in the display image in another of the plurality of comparison areas.

47. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 37, wherein the color temperature of the display image displayed in the one of the comparison areas is displayed, as color temperature information, on the at least one display.

48. The recording medium for recording an image display program according to claim 47, wherein display/no-display of the color temperature information on the at least one display can be switched.