Reproducer, digital camera, slide show reproduction method, program, image display apparatus, image display method, image reproduction method, and image display program

• US 9,389,768 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Nonaka, Osamu, Shimura, Kazuhiko, Uemura, Tatsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Daquan
• Application Number:
  US14/190,849
• Publication Number:
  US 20140176431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.99, 348/208.99, 348/208.2, 348/208.4, 348/208.5, 348/208.6, 348/208.7, 386/239, 386/242, 386/263, 386/264, 386/271, 386/314, 386/326
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0487 using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• 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 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2625 for obtaining an image which is composed of images from a temporal image sequence, e.g. for a stroboscopic effect sequence generated by event triggered capturing H04N7/188
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• 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

Abstract

A reproducer is provided with members shown below. Namely, the reproducer is provided with a storage part for storing images, a vibration detection part for detecting a vibration operation by a user, a switching instruction part for instructing switching of reproduction content in slide show reproduction based on a detection result from the vibration detection part, a synthesis processing part for performing creation processing of slide show images, which are images for the slide show reproduction, based on instructions of the switching instruction part, and a slide show control part for performing the slide show reproduction of the images stored in the storage part and the slide show images.

Claims

1. Apparatus comprising:

an imaging part for capturing a plurality of images responsive to user operation input;

a storage part which stores the plurality of images;

a vibration detection part which detects a manual vibration of the apparatus by a user while the apparatus is in a reproduction mode, wherein the manual vibration corresponds to a predefined user input command;

a switching instruction part which switches to one type of a plurality of different types of reproduction of the plurality of images based on the predefined user input command corresponding to the manual vibration detected by the vibration detection part;

a synthesis processing part which creates processed images from at least one of the plurality of images based on the type of reproduction switched to by the switching instruction part, wherein the at least one of the plurality of images from which the synthesis processing part creates processed images consist of images automatically specified based on an image classification;

a tentative storage part for storing the processed images created by the synthesis processing part; and

a display control part which controls the reproduction of at least some of the created processed images stored in the tentative storage part.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein creation of the processed images by the synthesis processing part includes synthesizing an image from more than one image of the plurality of images.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the switching instruction part instructs the synthesis processing part to prohibit the creation of processed images when the vibration detection part detects a first predefined user input command.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the switching instruction part instructs the synthesis processing part to change a type of reproduction of the plurality of images when the vibration detection part detects a first predefined user input command.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predefined user input command is defined by a number of times of vibration to the apparatus in the detected manual vibration.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the predefined user input command is defined by a vibration time of the detected manual vibration.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one synthesized image.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one split image.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one color processed image.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one enlarged image.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one reduced image.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the manual vibration, detected by the vibration detection part and corresponding to the predefined user input command, occurs after the plurality of images have been stored by the storage part, and

wherein the plurality of types of reproduction reproduce, on a display of the apparatus, the plurality of images in different ways.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display on which the reproduction of the at least some of the created processed images stored in the tentative storage part occurs,

wherein the imaging part, the storage part, the vibration detection part, the switching instruction part, the display control part and the display are all included in a camera.

14. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display control part controls the reproduction of the at least some of the created processed images stored in the tentative storage part so that each of the at least some of the created processed images is displayed for a time which is a function of the number of the at least some of the created processed images, before a next one of the at least some of the created processed images is displayed.

15. A method comprising:

capturing a plurality of images with a camera responsive to user operation input;

storing the plurality of images;

detecting a manual vibration operation of the camera by a user while the camera is in a reproduction mode, wherein the manual vibration corresponds to a predefined user input command;

switching to one type of a plurality of different types of reproduction of the plurality of images based on the predefined user input command corresponding to the detected manual vibration operation;

creating processed images from at least one of the plurality of images based on the type of reproduction switched to, wherein the at least one of the plurality of images from which the processed images are created consist of images automatically specified based on an image classification;

storing the processed images created by the synthesis processing part in a tentative storage part of the camera; and

displaying at least some of the created processed images stored in the tentative storage part.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one synthesized image.

17. The method of claim 15 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one split image.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one color processed image.

19. The method of claim 15 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one enlarged image.

20. The method of claim 15 wherein the type of reproduction of the plurality of images switched to includes reproducing at least one reduced image.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the manual vibration, detected and corresponding to the predefined user input command, occurs after the plurality of images have been stored, and

wherein the plurality of types of reproduction reproduce, on a display of the camera, the plurality of images in different ways.

22. A non-transitory storage medium storing program instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a reproduction apparatus, cause the at least one processor of the reproduction apparatus to perform a method comprising:

capturing a plurality of images with a camera responsive to user operation input;

storing the plurality of images;

detecting a manual vibration operation of the camera by a user while the camera is in a reproduction mode, wherein the manual vibration corresponds to a predefined user input command;

switching to one type of a plurality of different types of reproduction of the plurality of images based on the predefined user input command corresponding to the detected manual vibration operation;

creating processed images from at least one of the plurality of images based on the type of reproduction switched to, wherein the at least one of the plurality of images from which the processed images are created consist of images automatically specified based on an image classification;

storing the processed images created by the synthesis processing part in a tentative storage part of the camera; and

displaying at least some of the created processed images stored in the tentative storage part.

23. Apparatus comprising:

an imaging part for capturing a plurality of images responsive to user operation input;

a storage part which stores the plurality of images;

a user operation part for receiving at least one user selection for designating at least some of the plurality of images as candidate images;

a vibration detection part which detects a manual vibration of the reproduction apparatus by a user, wherein the manual vibration corresponds to one of a plurality of different predefined display mode user commands;

a synthesis processing part which creates processed images from at least one of the plurality of images based on the type of reproduction switched to by the switching instruction part, wherein the at least one of the plurality of images from which the synthesis processing part creates processed images consist of images automatically specified based on an image classification; and

a display control part which performs a predefined image display mode on the candidate images in accordance with the one of the predefined display mode user commands corresponding to the manual vibration detected by the vibration detection part, and which controls the reproduction of at least some of the processed images created.

24. The reproduction apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the manual vibration, detected by the vibration detection part and corresponding to the predefined display mode user command, occurs after the images have been stored by the storage part.

25. A method comprising:

capturing a plurality of images responsive to user operation input;

storing the plurality of images;

receiving at least one user selection for designating at least some of the plurality of images as candidate images;

detecting a manual vibration operation of the reproduction apparatus by a user, wherein the manual vibration corresponds to one of a plurality of different predefined display mode user commands;

creating processed images from at least one of the plurality of images based on the type of reproduction switched to, wherein the at least one of the plurality of images from which the processed images are created consist of images automatically specified based on an image classification;

displaying at least one of the processed images created; and

performing a predefined image display mode on the candidate images in accordance with one of the predefined display mode user commands corresponding to the manual vibration detected.

26. The reproduction method of claim 25, wherein the manual vibration, detected and corresponding to the predefined display mode user command, occurs after the images have been stored.