Image processing apparatus, image processing system, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

• US 9,237,246 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Kemmochi, Eiji, Shimada, Atsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhang, Fan
• Application Number:
  US14/190,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247463A1
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03 Arrangements for converting the position or the displacement of a member into a coded form
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00129 with a display device, e.g. CRT or LCD monitor with a television apparatus H04N1/00283; arrangements for control of display devices G09G
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00381 Input by recognition or interpretation of visible user gestures manual input means, e.g. digitisers, writing tablets H04N1/00392; gesture input to computers G06F3/017; recognition algorithms G06V40/20

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a first display unit that displays a video input on an operation and display unit, a second display unit that displays an input image that is superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit, and a captured image recording unit that records a captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit. The second display unit erases the input image that is recorded when the captured image recording unit records the captured image of the input image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an operation and display unit configured to provide a display and a plurality of buttons including a capture button that instructs recording of a captured image; and

a processor, coupled to the operation and display unit, and configured to perform a process including

first displaying a video input on the operation and display unit;

second displaying an input image that is input from the operation and display unit and superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit;

recording, in a storage unit, the captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit, in response to a selection of the capture button; and

locking the plurality of buttons provided on the operation and display unit to a disabled state in response to the selection of the capture button,

wherein the second displaying erases the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at a time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in a case in which the image processing apparatus is set to a first operation setting, and maintains the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at a time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in a case in which the image processing apparatus is set to a second operation setting different from the first operation setting, and

wherein the second displaying releases the plurality of buttons that are locked to an enabled state after erasing the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at the time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in the case in which the image processing apparatus is set to the first operation setting.

2. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the recording records the video input and the input image in separate layers of a hierarchical layer structure.

3. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a network control unit communicable with another image processing apparatus via a network,

wherein the recording controls the other image processing apparatus to record the captured image of the video input and the input image displayed on the operation and display unit via the network.

4. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor performs the process further including

switching the display on the operation and display unit from a screen page to a captured page in response to the selection of the capture button in a state in which the screen page is displayed on the operation and display unit,

wherein the video input is displayed on the screen page by the first displaying, and the captured image is displayed on the captured page by the second displaying.

5. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a video input unit configured to receive a video input;

an operation and display unit configured to display the video input from the video input unit on a screen page, and provide a plurality of buttons; and

a processor, coupled to the video input unit and the operation and display unit, and configured to perform a process including

detecting a change in existence of the video input from the video input unit;

locking the plurality of buttons provided on the operation and display unit to a disabled state in response to a detection of the change by the detecting;

switching the display on the operation and display unit between the screen page and a captured page in which an input image that is input from the operation and display unit is superimposed on the video input of the screen page in response to the detection of the change by the detecting, wherein the plurality of buttons include a switch button that instructs switching of the display on the operation and display unit between the screen page and the captured page;

releasing the plurality of buttons that are locked to an enabled state after the switching; and

locking the switch button to a disabled state in response to the detection of the change by the detecting.

6. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the switching switches the display to the captured page that is displayed last on the operation and display unit, when the detecting detects a change of the video input to a no-video input state in which no video input is received from the video input unit.

7. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the switching records, in a storage unit, the captured page that is being displayed on the operation and display unit and switches the display to the screen page, when the detecting detects a change to a video input state in which the video input is received from the video input unit.

8. The image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

a network control unit communicable with another image processing apparatus via a network,

wherein the detecting detects a change in the video input received from the other image processing apparatus via the network.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process of an image processing apparatus, the process comprising:

first displaying a video input on an operation and display unit that is configured to provide a display and a plurality of buttons including a capture button that instructs recording of a captured image;

second displaying an input image that is input from the operation and display unit and superimposed on the video input displayed on the operation and display unit;

recording, in a storage unit, the captured image of the video input and the input image that are displayed on the operation and display unit, in response to a selection of the capture button; and

locking the plurality of buttons provided on the operation and display unit to a disabled state in response to the selection of the capture button,

wherein the second displaying erases the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at a time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in a case in which the image processing apparatus is set to a first operation setting, and maintains the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at a time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in a case in which the image processing apparatus is set to a second operation setting different from the first operation setting, and

wherein the second displaying releases the plurality of buttons that are locked to an enabled state after erasing the input image that is already recorded in the storage unit at the time when the capture button is selected from the operation and display unit in the case in which the image processing apparatus is set to the first operation setting.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium as claimed in claim 9, wherein the process further comprises:

switching the display on the operation and display unit from a screen page to a captured page in response to the selection of the capture button in a state in which the screen page is displayed on the operation and display unit,

wherein the video input is displayed on the screen page by the first displaying, and the captured image is displayed on the captured page by the second displaying.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process of an image processing apparatus, the process comprising:

displaying a video input on a screen page of an operation and display unit that is configured to provide a display and a plurality of buttons;

detecting a change in existence of the video input;

locking the plurality of buttons provided on the operation and display unit to a disabled state in response to a detection of the change by the detecting;

switching the display on the operation and display unit between the screen page and a captured page in which an input image that is input from the operation and display unit is superimposed on the video input of the screen page in response to the detection of the change by the detecting;

releasing the plurality of buttons that are locked to an enabled state after the switching; and

locking a switch button, that is included in the plurality of buttons and instructs switching of the display on the operation and display unit between the screen page and the captured page, to a disabled state in response to the detection of the change by the detecting.