Image processing system having a selector for selecting a picked-up image or a stored image for 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.
Claims16
An image processing system comprising:
- pick-up means for picking up a subject;
- storage means for storing an image information input from said pick-up means;
- selection means for selecting one of the image information from said pick-up means and the image information stored in said storage means;
- display means for displaying the image information selected by said selection means, said display means being constituted so that the subject can see a display during image pick-up;
- output means for outputting the image information stored in said storage means;
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- control means for performing a first step of making said selection means select the image information from said pick-up means until first instructions are input, a second step of making said storage means store the image information from said pick-up means in response to the first instructions being input while making said selection means select the image information stored in said storage means, and a third step of performing shifting to said first step in response to second instructions being input in said second step.
An image processing method in an image processing apparatus, said image processing apparatus comprising:
- pick-up means for picking up a subject,
- storage means for storing an image information input from said pick-up means;
- selection means for selecting one of the image information from said pick-up means and the image information stored in said storage means;
- display means for displaying the image information selected by said selection means, said display means being constituted so that the subject can see a display during image pick-up;
- output means for outputting the image information stored in said storage means;
- said image processing method comprising:
- a first step of making said selection means select the image information from said pick-up means until first instructions are input, a second step of making said storage means store the image information from said pick-up means in response to the first instructions being input while making said selection means select the image information stored in said storage means, and a third step of performing shifting to said first step in response to second instructions being input in said second step.
A storage medium storing a program of a control operation readable by a control unit, said program comprising:
- a first step of causing a display to display an image from a pick-up unit until first instructions are input;
- a second step of storing the image from said pick-up unit into a memory in response to the first instructions while displaying the image stored in the memory;
- a third step of performing shifting to said first step in response to second instructions being input in said second step;
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- a fourth step of outputting the image stored in the memory to a unit for forming an image on a sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.