Method of image processing and electronic camera

• US 20020071042A1
• Filed: 11/30/2001
• Published: 06/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Corporation (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Enomoto, Hiromichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,024,053 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 Mixing

Abstract

An image processing method to make a composite image by pasting an image including a marked photographic object into another image, comprises the steps of, obtaining a degree of agreement between image data corresponding to a background image of the marked photographic object and image data corresponding to a background image of the other image, and a step of pasting an image of the marked photographic object into the other image in a state that the degree of agreement is highest.

Claims

1. An image processing method of making a composite image by pasting an image including a marked photographic object into another image, comprising the steps of:

obtaining a degree of agreement between image data corresponding to a background image of the marked photographic object and image data corresponding to a background image of the other image; and

pasting an image of the marked photographic object into the other image in a state that the degree of agreement is highest.

2. The image processing method of claim 1, further comprising a step of designating a domain of an image to be pasted.

3. The image processing method of claim 1, further comprising a step of displaying a composed image, which has been composed with the image processing method.

4. The image processing method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of the steps of:

moving a pasting position for the image of the marked photographic object into the other image; and

enlarging/reducing the domain to be pasted.

5. The image processing method of claim 1, further comprising a step of processing in such a manner that average brightness and color balance of the image to be pasted and of the other image in which the image is to be pasted are made to agree with each other.

6. The image processing method of claim 1, further comprising a step of correcting distortion caused by a photographic optical system.

7. An electronic camera, comprising:

a photographing section to photograph a first object and a second object; and

a display section to display semi-transparently a photographed image of the first object and to further display semi-transparently a photographed image of the second object in such a way that the displayed photographed image of the second image is superposed on the displayed photographed image of the first object.

8. The electronic camera of claim 7, further comprising

a obtaining section to obtain a composite position of the photographed image of the first object and the photographed image of the second object,

wherein the display section superposes the photographed image of the first object and the photographed image of the second object on the basis of the composite position and displays semi-transparently the photographed image of the first object and the photographed image of the second object.

9. The electronic camera of claim 7, further comprising:

a section to obtain a degree of agreement of the two photographed images; and

a notifying section to notify that the degree of agreement of the two photographed images is higher than a specified value.

10. The electronic camera of claim 9, wherein the notifying section emits a sound when the degree of agreement of the two photographed images is higher than the specified value.

11. The electric camera of claim 7, wherein in a case where a plurality of images are photographed on the premise of pasting, in a header of at least one of the plurality of images, there is recorded information that the image corresponding to the header is to become the object of pasting, and information of another image which is also to become the object of pasting.