Image pick-up apparatus

• US 7,652,694 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Issued: 01/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suto, Kazutoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran; Sinh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Negron; Wanda M
• Application Number:
  US10/995,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20050117044A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,889 Days
• Field of Search: 348/239, 348/333.12, 348/552
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00427 using a menu list H04N1/00421, H04N1/00424, H04N1/00429 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00458 Sequential viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. browsing or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3871 the composed originals being of different kinds, e.g. low- and high-resolution originals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3226 of identification information or the like, e.g. ID code, index, title, part of an image, reduced-size image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3243 of type information, e.g. handwritten or text document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3277 The additional information being stored in the same storage device as the image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects

Abstract

An image pick-up apparatus loaded in a body of the apparatus with a monitor for displaying a captured image is provided. The image pick-apparatus includes an input device which inputs a character and an image to be combined with an image displayed on the monitor, a composition device which combines the character and the image input through the input device with the image displayed on the monitor, and generates a composite image, an instruction device which instructs a record of the composite image generated by the composition device, and a record control device which records a composite image generated by the composition device in accordance with an instruction of the instruction device in a record medium, and adds an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the record medium is a composite image to a part of a file name, thereby recording data in the record medium.

Claims

1. An image pick-up apparatus with a monitor for displaying a captured image, comprising:

an input device which inputs a character and/or an image to be combined with an image displayed on the monitor;

a touch panel which is mounted on a screen of the monitor, and is capable of accepting a pen-input character and image;

a mode set device which sets a mode of the apparatus into paint mode or file name change mode;

a composition device which combines the character and/or the image input through the input device in the paint mode, or the pen-input character and the image from the touch panel, with the image displayed on the monitor, and generates a composite image;

a record instruction device which instructs a record of the composite image generated by the composition device in the paint mode;

a record control device which records a composite image generated by the composition device in accordance with an instruction of the record instruction device in the paint mode in a recording medium, the record control device adding an identification symbol for identifying that the image recorded in the recording medium is a composite image and an identification symbol for identification of an input source of the character and/or image which is combined with the composite image, to a part of a file name of the composite image when the composite image is recorded in the recording medium;

a file name change instruction device which instructs a change of a file name of an image displayed on the monitor in the file name change mode;

a character data storage device which stores prescribed character data;

a character recognition device which recognizes a pen-input character from the touch panel in the file name change mode based on character data stored in the character data storage device; and

a file name rewrite device which rewrites a file name of an image displayed on the monitor into a file name input by the touch panel in accordance with an instruction of the file name change instruction device in the file name change mode.

2. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the composition device combines a character of character data recognized by the character recognition device with an image displayed on the monitor.

3. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric character data.

4. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is alphabetic character data.

5. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is kana-kanji character data.

6. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

prescribed character data stored in the character data storage device is numeric, alphabetic, and kana-kanji character data; and

the apparatus further comprises a character type selection device which selects a character type recognized by the character recognition device.

7. The image pick-up apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the character data storage device is attachable to and removable from the body of the apparatus.