ELECTRONIC CAMERA, IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20150172534A1
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Published: 06/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: Miyakawa, Yoshiaki, Fujio, Shigenori
• Granted Patent: US 9,774,778 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• 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 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure

Abstract

A display unit having an image display area for displaying an image, an operation unit by which a predetermined area in the image display area is designated in a movable manner, and a filter unit performing filter processing on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated in the movable manner by the operation unit. Accordingly, it is possible to easily perform an operation of overlapping a plurality of filter effects, and a comparison of images based on the presence/absence of a filter effect, or different filter effects, without performing a complicated filter operation.

Claims

1. An electronic camera, comprising:

a display unit having an image display area for displaying an image;

an operation unit by which a predetermined area in the image display area is designated in a movable manner; and

a filter unit performing filter processing on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated in the movable manner by the operation unit.

2. The electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein the display unit further has a filter list display area displaying a list of at least one type of the filter processing.

3. The electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein:

the operation unit is formed of a touch panel disposed on a screen of the display unit, and the predetermined area is designated by operating the touch panel; and

the filter unit performs the filter processing on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated by the operation of the touch panel.

4. The electronic camera according to claim 3, wherein

the operation unit sets a boundary position to designate the predetermined area by selecting a type of the filter processing from the filter list display area and making the type of the filter processing in the state of being selected slide in the image display area.

5. The electronic camera according to claim 2, wherein:

an elimination of the filter processing can be selected from the filter list display area; and

when at least either the selection of the elimination of the filter processing from the filter list display area or an operation in a direction different from the direction in which the operation of designating the predetermined area is performed, is performed by the operation unit, the filter unit cancels a filter effect of the image corresponding to the predetermined area after being subjected to the filter processing.

6. The electronic camera according to claim 4, wherein:

when the setting of the boundary position through the operation of the touch panel is canceled during the setting of the boundary position through the operation of the touch panel, a direction of the boundary position is changed to a direction different from the direction in which the operation of designating the boundary position is performed; and

the filter unit cancels a filter effect of the area after being subjected to the filter processing, toward the direction in which the boundary position is changed.

7. The electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein

when an operation is performed by the operation unit in an orthogonal direction with respect to the direction in which the operation of designating the predetermined area is performed in the image corresponding to the predetermined area after being subjected to the filter processing, the filter unit performs the filter processing to increase the filter effect applied to the image corresponding to the predetermined area when the operation by the operation unit is performed in a first direction with respect to the orthogonal direction, and to decrease the filter effect applied to the image corresponding to the predetermined area when the operation by the operation unit is performed in a second direction with respect to the orthogonal direction.

8. The electronic camera according to claim 2, wherein:

the filter list display areas are disposed on at least a first side and a second side, respectively, of the image display area, and a list of at least one type of the filter processing is displayed on each of the filter list display areas;

the operation unit operates a type of filter displayed at the first side to make a first predetermined area to be designated in a movable manner on the image display area, and operates a type of filter displayed at the second side to make a second predetermined area to be designated in a movable manner on the image display area; and

the filter unit performs first filter processing on the image corresponding to the first predetermined area, performs second filter processing on the image corresponding to the second predetermined area, and performs the first filter processing and the second filter processing on the image corresponding to an area in which the first predetermined area and the second predetermined area are overlapped.

9. The electronic camera according to claim 2, wherein

when the operation of designating the predetermined area by the operation unit is repeatedly conducted, the filter unit performs the selected types of filter processing in an overlapped manner every time the operation is repeatedly performed on the predetermined area.

10. The electronic camera according to claim 8, wherein

when a first boundary line being a boundary line between the predetermined area after performing the filter processing on the image by the operation unit and an area on which no filter processing is performed, and a second boundary line which is orthogonal to the first boundary line are set, the filter unit cancels the filter processing with respect to an area within the predetermined area from a position at which the setting of the second boundary line is started to the second boundary line.

11. The electronic camera according to claim 1, wherein

the image is one of an image to be shot and a shot image.

13. The electronic camera according to claim 1, further comprising

an image shooting unit performing image shooting processing, wherein

the image shooting unit performs the image shooting processing after the filter processing is performed on an entire screen of the image display area.

14. The electronic camera according to claim 3, further comprising

an image shooting unit performing image shooting processing, wherein

when one of a flick operation and a drag operation of the touch panel is performed at a previously set acceleration and over, the image shooting unit performs the image shooting processing after the filter processing of the area to which the operation is performed is applied to an entire screen.

15. The electronic camera according to claim 13, wherein

even when the filter processing by the filter unit is performed on the entire screen of the image display area, if different types of filter processing are performed on plural areas within the image display area, the image shooting unit bans the image shooting processing.

16. An image display device excluding a shooting function from the electronic camera according to claim 1, the image display device further comprising

an image input unit inputting one of an image to be shot and a shot image, wherein:

the image input unit is formed of either an interface unit which inputs an image stored in an internally or externally connected storage medium or an interface unit which inputs an image through one of broadcasting and communication; and

the image input by the interface unit is displayed on the display unit, and the filter processing is performed by the filter unit in accordance with an operation of the operation unit.

12. An electronic camera, comprising:

a display unit having an image display area for displaying an image;

a filter unit performing filter processing on the image displayed on the display unit; and

an operation unit performing an operation of moving, on the image display area, filter layers formed by continuously connecting filter areas on which a plurality of types of filter processing are performed, wherein

the filter unit performs the filter processing on an image within the filter area, the filter processing corresponding to the filter area operated by the operation unit on the image display area.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing an image display program capable of being executed by a computer having a display medium which displays an image and an operation member which provides a man-machine interface, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing the image display program comprising:

performing filter processing on an image of input image data;

displaying, on the display medium, a screen having an image display area for displaying the image; and

obtaining operation information made by the operation member by which a predetermined area in the image display area is designated in a movable manner, wherein

the filter processing is performed on the image corresponding to the predetermined area designated in the movable manner.