DIGITAL CAMERA RECORDING A COMPOSITE IMAGE

• US 20110310435A1
• Filed: 08/26/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: TSUJI, Shuji, NAKAJIMA, Yasumasa, SHIRAKAWA, Masanobu
• Application Number:
  US13/219,224
• Publication Number:
  US 20110310435A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2621 Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects during image pickup, e.g. digital cameras, camcorders, video cameras having integrated special effects capability
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

A digital camera capable of recording a subject image so that the subject image can be drawn as it is combined with a selected default image and so that the subject image can be drawn separately from the selected default image. The digital camera includes an image processor which creates subject image data based on output of an image sensor and a default image setting unit which stores subject image data in a removable memory together with information for associating background data with the subject image data, whereby the subject image data, rather than the data provided by combining the subject image data and the background data, is stored in the removable memory and the subject image data and the background data are associated with each other.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a first getter which gets a first image;

a second getter which gets an image group that includes;

a plurality of second images each of which corresponds to a respective one of output sizes; and

a plurality of layouts each of which corresponds to a respective one of the second images and defines layout of the first image and a corresponding one of the second images; and

a storing unit which stores associating data for associating the first image and the image group.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a display unit which displays a composite image representing the first image and one of the second images.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a print control unit which causes a printer to print a composite image representing the first image and one of the second images.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the print control unit creates the composite image.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output sizes are sizes of mediums on which a composite image representing the first image and a corresponding one of the second images is printed.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second images in the image group includes the same figure.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the second getter gets the image group from a nonvolatile external memory;

and

the storing unit stores the associating data in the same nonvolatile external memory.

8. A computer-readable recording medium in which a computer program causing a computer to execute a method is recorded, the method comprising:

getting a first image;

getting an image group that includes;

a plurality of second images each of which corresponds to a respective one of output sizes; and

a plurality of layouts each of which corresponds to a respective one of the second images and defines layout of the first image and a corresponding one of the second images; and

storing associating data for associating the first image and the image group.