Photography booth with multiple video input and confirming image display
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKan Ito, Tomishige Taguchi, Shozo Endo, Atsushi Inagaki, Hiroyuki Kawahara
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Abstract
An image processing system is capable of displaying, storing and printing an image from either of two video inputs. When one video input is selected, a real-time video image of a subject is displayed on a monitor. When a shutter-button is pushed, a still-frame image of the subject is displayed on the monitor and stored in a memory. A print out of the stored image can be requested following confirmation of the quality and desirability of the stored image.
Claims32
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- image pick-up means for converting picked-up image information into an image signal;
- input means for inputting an image signal of image information;
- selection means for selecting the image signal from one of said image pick-up means and said input means;
- storage means for storing the image signal selected by said selection means;
- display means for selectively performing a display of image information in accordance with the image signal from said selection means and a display of image information in accordance with the image signal from said storage means;
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- output means for outputting the image signal stored in said storage means.
A self-photography booth comprising:
- first input means for inputting image information and for producing an image signal representing the input image information;
- second input means for inputting an image signal representing image information;
- selection means for selecting the image signal from one of said first and second input means;
- display means for displaying image information represented by the selected image signal;
- storage means for storing the selected image signal;
- storage instruction means for instructing a storage of the selected image signal by said storage means;
- printing means for printing the image information represented by the image signal stored in said storage means;
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- control means for controlling the display image information, corresponding to the selected image signal, by said display means, for controlling storage of the selected image signal by said storage means in accordance with an instruction from said storage instruction means, for controlling the display image information, corresponding to the stored image signal, by said display means in accordance with the instruction from said storage instruction means, and for controlling the printing of the image information, represented by the image signal stored in said storage means, by said printing means.
A self-photography booth, comprising:
- image pick-up means for converting picked-up image information into an image signal;
- input means for inputting an image signal representing image information;
- selection means for selecting the image signal from one of said image pick-up means and said input means;
- storage means for storing the image signal selected by said selection means;
- display means for selectively performing a display of image information in accordance with the image signal from said selection means and a display of image information in accordance with the image signal from said storage means;
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- printing means for printing the image information represented by the image signal stored in said storage means.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- image pick-up means for converting picked-up image information into an image signal;
- input means for inputting an image signal of image information;
- selection means for selecting the image signal from one of said image pick-up means and said input means;
- storage means for storing the image signal selected by said selection means;
- display means for selectively performing a display of image information in accordance-with the image signal from said selection means and a display of image information in accordance with the image signal from said storage means;
- output means for outputting the image signal stored in said storage means;
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- changeover means for switching between the display of the image signal from said selection means and that of the image signal from the storage means.
An image processing method in an image processing apparatus comprising image pick-up means for converting picked-up image information into an image signal, and input means for inputting an image signal of image information, said method comprising the steps of:
- selecting the image signal from one of said image pick-up means and said input means;
- storing the selected image signal in storage means;
- selectively performing a display of image information in accordance with the selected image signal and a display of image information in accordance with the stored image signal;
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- outputting the image signal stored in said storage means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.