ELECTRONIC DEVICE, IMAGE OUTPUT METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20110242123A1
• Filed: 01/20/2011
• Published: 10/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Client Solutions CO., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: TABE, Kenichi, SAKAGUCHI, Tomonori, MOMOSAKI, Kohei, WADA, Kouetsu
• Granted Patent: US 8,988,457 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/581
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/52 Parallel processing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2352/00 Parallel handling of streams of display data

Abstract

In one embodiment, there is provided an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a first generator configured to generate a first image display mode in which image processing including at least one of an effect processing and a transition processing is applied to one or more still images based on image features of the still images; a second generator configured to generate a second image display mode in which one or more still images are switched over successively; and a switching module configured to output any one of the first and second image display modes and switch between the first image display mode and the second image display mode.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising;

a first generator configured to implement a first image display mode in which image processing comprising at least one of an effect processing and a transition processing is applied to one or more still images based on image features of the one or more still images;

a second generator configured to implement a second image display mode in which one or more still images are switched over successively; and

a switching module configured to select one of the first and second image display modes and to switch between the first image display mode and the second image display mode.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a storage module configured to store the still images and the image features of the still images such that the still images are associated with the image features.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the switching module is configured to switch between the first image display mode and the second image display mode at a predetermined time.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the switching module is configured to output audio in the first image display mode but not to output audio in the second image display mode.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a storage module configured to store the still images and the image features of the still images such that the still images are associated with the image features;

a detector configured to detect the image features of the still images; and

a storage controller configured to control the storage module to store the still images and the image features such that the still images are associated with the image feature volumes.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

an extraction module configured to extract the still images from motion images, wherein the first and second generators are configured to implement the first and second image display modes using the still images extracted from the motion images.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display module configured to display any one of the first and second image display modes.

8. An image output method, comprising;

implementing a first image display mode in which image processing comprising at least one of an effect processing and a transition processing is applied to one or more still images based on image features of the still images;

implementing a second image display mode in which one or more still images are switched over successively;

outputting any one of the first and second image display modes; and

switching between the first image display mode and the second image display mode.

9. A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute an image output operation, the image output operation comprising:

implementing a first image display mode in which image processing comprising at least one of an effect processing and a transition processing is applied to one or more still images based on image features of the still images;

implementing a second image display mode in which one or more still images are switched over successively;

outputting any one of the first and second image display modes; and

switching between the first image display mode and the second image display mode.