Image display apparatus and image display method

• US 8,698,920 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2010
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Uemura, Yuiko, Tani, Akira, Nakada, Naohisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Haskins, Twyler
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chon, Peter
• Application Number:
  US12/709,597
• Publication Number:
  US 20100214442A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,513 Days
• Field of Search: 348/231.2, 348/231.3, 348/231.5, 348/231.6, 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.05, 348/222.1, 382/118, 382/190
• US Class Current: 348/231.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

An image display apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a face detection section detecting a face image within a photographed image; a classification section classifying the photographed image by a pattern of the face image and a color or a pattern under the face image; and a display control section displaying an image of the same face with the different color or pattern according to the classification by the classification section, and displays images of the same person among the plurality of images classified by the classification section at the same time or sequentially in the display of the display control section.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus, comprising:

a face detection section detecting a face image within a photographed image using image data of the photographed image;

a classification section classifying the photographed image by a pattern of the face image, and at least one of a color under the face image and a pattern under the face image;

an image recording section recording the image data of the photographed image, wherein the image recording section records related information associated with the image data according to the classification by the classification section when recording the image data; and

a display control section searching the plurality of photographed images according to the related information recorded in the image recording section and displaying the image which has been searched for,

wherein the face detection section is capable of detecting a size and a position of the face image; and

the display control section changes the size and/or the position of the face image, displays the face images by adjusting the respective positions thereof in the same manner, and determines whether or not only one person is photographed in the image, and responsive to a determination that the number of images each including the only one person does not reach a predetermined value, the display control section trims an image of the one person to display the trimmed image.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the face detection section is capable of detecting a size and a position of the face image, and the number of the face images; and

the display control section determines an image to be preferentially displayed according to the size of the face image and the number of the face images.

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

a search section searching for an image so as to perform searching across a plurality of image groups which have been formed in a first predetermined condition, the image satisfying a second predetermined condition different from the first predetermined condition and also not satisfying a third predetermined condition.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the first predetermined condition is an event determination condition by a photographing date and time, the second predetermined condition is a condition for a person photographed in the image, and the third predetermined condition is a condition for clothes of the person.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section displays a synthesized image synthesized from two of the photographed images when displaying the photographed images.

6. The image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the synthesized image is synthesized by replacing a part of the photographed image to be displayed first with a corresponding part of the photographed image to be displayed subsequently.

7. The image display apparatus of claim 1 wherein

the display control section changes the size of the face image, and displays the face images by adjusting the respective positions thereof in the same manner such that the faces from each of a plurality of different images are displayed with a consistent size.

8. The image display apparatus of claim 1 wherein

the display control section changes the position of the face image, and displays the face images by adjusting the respective positions thereof in the same manner such that the faces from each of a plurality of different images are displayed at a consistent position.

9. An image display apparatus, comprising:

a storage section storing image data of a photographed image;

a person image extraction section extracting an image of a person from the photographed image;

a clothes determination section determining a clothes part in the image data of the image of a person extracted by the person image extraction section, wherein the storage section records related information associated with the image data according to the determination by the clothes determination section when recording the image data;

a search section searching for an image in which the same person extracted by the person image extraction section has been determined to wear different clothes by the clothes determination section, according to the related information stored in the storage section; and

a display section displaying the image searched for by the search section, wherein the display section determines whether or not only one person is photographed in the image, and responsive to a determination that the number of images each including the only one person does not reach a predetermined value, the display section trims an image of the one person to display the trimmed image.

10. The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the person image extraction section includes a face detection section and extracts a person by face detection of the face detection section.

11. The image display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the clothes determination section detects a color and/or a pattern of a part under a face of the person and carries out determination according to the detection result.

12. The image display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein

the search section determines a priority of display in consideration for at least one of the number of the faces, a face size, and a face position which have been detected by the face detection section.

13. The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the display section classifies the image stored in the storage section for each event by a photographing date and time, and displays an album grouping the images for each classification.

14. The image display apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the search section searches also images belonging to the different album when searching for the image of the same person wearing different clothes.

15. The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the display section displays the photographed images of the same person wearing different clothes sequentially one by one, the photographed images having been searched for by the search section.

16. The image display apparatus according to claim 15, wherein

the display section displays a synthesized image synthesized from two of the photographed images between the two photographed images when displaying the photographed images.

17. The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the display section displays the plural photographed images of the same person wearing different clothes in parallel, the plural photographed images having been searched for by the search section.

18. The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the person image extraction section is capable of detecting a size and a position of the face image;

and

the display section changes the size and/or the position of the face image, and displays the face images by adjusting the respective positions thereof in the same manner.

19. An image display method, comprising the steps of:

determining that a person has been designated in a stored photographed image, wherein when image data of the stored photographed person is recorded, related information associated with the image data is recorded according to the determination by clothes determination section;

determining a clothes part in an image of the designated person according to the related information;

searching for an image of different clothes of the same person as the designated person according to the related information; and

displaying the image that has been searched for, wherein at the time of display, it is determined whether or not only one person is photographed in the image, and responsive to a determination that the number of images each including the only one person does not reach a predetermined value, an image of the one person is trimmed and the trimmed image is displayed.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a computer program for:

determining that a person has been designated in a stored photographed image, wherein when image data of the stored photographed person is recorded, related information associated with the image data is recorded according to the determination by clothes determination section;

determining a clothes part in an image of the designated person according to the related information;

searching for an image of different clothes of the same person as the designated person according to the related information; and

displaying the image that has been searched for, wherein at the time of display, it is determined whether or not only one person is photographed in the image, and responsive to a determination that the number of images each including the only one person does not reach a predetermined value, an image of the one person is trimmed and the trimmed image is displayed.