Apparatus for adding data to editing target data and displaying data

• US 8,917,957 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Hirota, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jayesh A
• Application Number:
  US12/631,405
• Publication Number:
  US 20100142769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,845 Days
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/56 having vectorial format
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/10 Recognition assisted with metadata
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/36 Matching; Classification

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to enhance search accuracy when additional data to be added to editing target data is searched using handwriting input. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus includes inputting a pattern to editing target data, acquiring attribute information of the editing target data, searching additional data to be added to the editing target data by using the pattern and the attribute information, and displaying the additional data, which is searched by the search unit and added to the editing target data.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to display on a display a photo having attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot;

an input unit configured to input a handwriting stroke on the photo displayed on the display;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire the attribute information;

a search unit configured to search additional image data to be added to the photo based on a shape of the handwriting stroke and the attribute information; and

wherein the display control unit is further configured to replace the handwriting stroke input on the photo displayed on the display with the additional image data searched for by the search unit, and

the search unit calculates a matching level between the input handwriting stroke and a pattern previously associated with the additional image data to be added to the photo, and a matching level between the attribute information of the photo and attribute information of the additional image data, and searches the additional image data by using the matching levels.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the acquisition unit recognizes a face included in the photo, extracts a number of recognized faces and acquire a position of each of the recognized face as the attribute information about the conditions when the photo is shot.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control unit is configured to cause the display to display a photo to be printed.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot includes at least one of shooting date and time information, information about a shooting location, or a number of faces included in the photo.

3. An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, comprising:

displaying on a display a photo having attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot;

inputting a handwriting stroke on the photo displayed on the display;

acquiring the attribute information about the conditions when the photo is shot;

searching additional image data to be added to the photo based on a shape of the handwriting stroke and the attribute information;

replacing the handwriting stroke input on the photo displayed on the display with the searched additional image data; and

calculating a matching level between the input handwriting stroke and a pattern previously associated with the additional image data to be added to the photo, and a matching level between the attribute information of the photo and attribute information of the additional image data, and searching the additional image data by using the matching levels.

4. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program that causes a computer to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:

displaying a photo having attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot on a display;

inputting a handwriting stroke on the photo displayed on the display;

acquiring the attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot;

searching additional image data to be added to the photo based on a shape of the handwriting stroke;

replacing the handwriting stroke with the searched additional image data; and

calculating a matching level between the input handwriting stroke and a pattern previously associated with the additional image data to be added to the photo, and a matching level between the attribute information of the photo and attribute information of the additional image data, and searching the additional image data by using the matching levels.

5. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a display control unit configured to display a photo having attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot on a display;

an input unit configured to input a handwriting stroke on the photo displayed on a display;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire first attribute information of the photo displayed on the display;

a storage unit configured to store a plurality of additional image data which can be added to the photo, each of the additional image data corresponding to each of a plurality of handwriting strokes which can be input by the input unit, wherein the storage unit stores each of the additional image data in association with second attribute information;

a determination unit configured to determine at least one of the additional image data to be added to the photo displayed on the display based on a relationship between the first attribute information and the second attribute information; and

wherein the display control unit is further configured to replace the handwriting stroke input on the photo displayed on the display with the additional image data determined by the determination unit.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein

the acquisition unit acquires, as the first attribute information, shooting date and time information of the photo displayed on the display;

the storage unit stores each of the plurality of additional image data in association with period information as the second attribute information;

wherein the determination unit determines the at least one additional image data to be added to the photo based on a relationship between the shooting date and time information and the period information.

7. The information processing according to claim 5, wherein:

the acquisition unit acquires, as the first attribute information, information about a shooting location of the photo displayed on the display;

the storage unit stores each of the plurality of additional data in association with the information of a location where the image data is likely to be used as the second attribute information; and

wherein the determination unit determines the at least one of the additional image data to be added to the photo, based on a relationship between the information about the shooting location given to the photo as the first attribute information acquired by the acquisition unit and the information of the location where the image data is likely to be used stored as the second attribute information in the storage unit in association with the handwriting stroke input on the photo by the input unit.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the photo includes image data, and further comprising a recognition unit configured to recognize at least one face included in the image data, wherein the acquisition unit extracts and acquires a number and a position of the at least one face recognized by the recognition unit as the attribute information.

9. The information apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising an identifying unit configured to identify the handwriting stroke input on the photo by the input unit, from among the plurality of handwriting strokes which can be input by the input unit each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of additional image data stored in the storage unit, wherein the determination unit determines the at least one additional image data to be added to the photo, based on a relationship between the first attribute information acquired by the acquisition unit and the second attribute information associated with additional image data corresponding to the handwriting stroke identified by the identification unit.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display control unit is configured to cause the display to display a photo to be printed.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program that causes a computer to execute an information processing method, the method comprising:

displaying a photo having attribute information about conditions when the photo is shot on a display;

inputting a handwriting stroke to the photo displayed on the display;

acquiring first attribute information of the photo;

storing, in a storage unit, a plurality of additional image data which can be added to the photo, each of the plurality of additional image data corresponding to each of a plurality of handwriting strokes which can be input, wherein the storage unit stores each of the plurality of additional image data in association with second attribute information;

determining at least one of the additional image data to be added to the photo based on a relationship between the acquired first attribute information and the second attribute information; and

replacing the handwriting stroke input on the photo displayed on the display with the determined additional image data which is determined.