Image input apparatus, program executed by computer, and method for preparing document with image

• US 7,961,218 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2006
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Seki, Kazuyuki, Koshiishi, Takaho, Suzuki, Keiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye; Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): DIEP, TRUNG T
• Application Number:
  US11/555,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20070061856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,685 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.1, 348/333.05, 709/203, 709/246
• US Class Current: 348/207.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00132 in a digital photofinishing system, i.e. a system where digital photographic images undergo typical photofinishing processing, e.g. printing ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00183 Photography assistance, e.g. displaying suggestions to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00204 with a digital computer or a digital computer system, e.g. an internet server programmed control between transmitter and receiver or between image input and image output device H04N1/32561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00244 with a server, e.g. an internet server fax-servers or the like for store and forward H04N1/324
• 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 1/00472 using a pop-up window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0097 Storage of instructions or parameters, e.g. customised instructions or different parameters for different user IDs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00973 from a remote device, e.g. receiving via the internet instructions input to a computer terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2112 using still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3263 of a graphical motif or symbol, e.g. Christmas symbol, logo H04N2201/3211 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3264 of sound signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

A digital camera inputs an image capture guide list including at least one of image titles as targets to be recorded, and displays the image title(s) included in the image capture guide list on its display part. User takes a picture or pictures while checking the image title(s) in the image capture guide list.

Claims

1. An image input apparatus comprising:

an optical system which forms an image of a subject;

an image pickup unit which converts the formed subject image to image data;

a memory which temporarily stores the image data output from said image pickup unit;

a storage control unit which stores the image data stored in said memory in a recording medium in a predetermined file format;

a display device which displays information on a screen;

a Web browsing unit which captures Web information for a Web page of a Web server, stores the Web information in said memory as display data, and displays the display data stored in said memory on the screen of said display device;

a freehand memo information input unit through which freehand memo information including text information is input by a user, the freehand memo information being superimposed on the Web information captured from said Web server and stored in the memory; and

a shutter release button through which a shooting operation is instructed,

wherein when the shutter release button is operated, the display data stored in said memory, which is the Web information displayed on the screen of the display device, is recorded in said recording medium in the predetermined file format in a similar manner as the image data.

2. The image input apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a zoom lever which allows a zoom lens to move, so that a subject image is zoomed,

wherein said Web browsing unit enlarges or reduces the size of the display data stored in said memory according to the operation of said zoom lever, and changes a range of the Web information to be captured.

3. The image input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said Web browsing unit periodically accesses a particular URL of a Web server to be browsed, and captures the Web information.

4. The image input apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a memo information input unit through which memo information is input; and

a memo information storage unit which previously stores memo information,

wherein a position on the Web information that has been browsed is specified, and the memo information input through said memo information input unit or previously stored in said memo information storage unit is superposed on the specified position of the Web information.

5. The image input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the display data stored in said memory is recorded in said recording medium in the predetermined file format, the corresponding URL or e-mail address is written in a header of a file.

6. The image input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the files in the predetermined file format are classified into those for folders according to the contents of URLs.

7. The image input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a superposing position of the freehand memo information on the Web information captured from said Web server is set by the user, and the memory is configured to store the freehand memo information and the Web information with the freehand memo information superposed on the Web information captured from said Web server at the superposing position.

8. An image input apparatus comprising:

an optical system which forms an image of a subject;

an image pickup unit which converts the formed subject image to image data;

a memory which temporarily stores the image data output from said image pickup unit;

a storage control unit which stores the image data stored in said memory in a recording medium in a predetermined file format;

a display device which displays information on a screen;

a Web browsing unit which captures Web information for a Web page of a Web server, stores the Web information in said memory as display data, and displays the display data stored in said memory on the screen of said display device;

a voice memo information input unit through which voice memo information is input by a user, the voice memo information of the user being added to the Web information captured from said Web server and stored in the memory; and

a shutter release button through which a shooting operation is instructed,

wherein when the shutter release button is operated, the display data stored in said memory, which is the Web information displayed on the screen of the display device, is recorded in said recording medium in the predetermined file format in a similar manner as the image data.