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US 8,701,006 B2Granted
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuichi Matsumoto, Yoshikazu Shibamiya
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Abstract
A DTV 10 generates a composite image by composing image data stored in a memory card 70 and displays this on a display unit 50 in a slideshow. When the DTV 10 receives a print instruction via a user interface unit 110 during the slideshow, the DTV 10 displays on the display unit 50 a print image selection window 501, which includes the composite image and the images that constitute the composite image. The DTV 10 prints the composite image or the image that has been selected via the print image selection window 501.
Claims7
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a first display control unit adapted to display one or more images on a display unit while changing a number of images to be displayed, wherein when the number of images to be displayed is more than one, the first display control unit displays the images as a first composite image arranged such that one image is overlaid with another image;
- a first acceptance unit adapted to accept an output instruction from a user during a period in which the one or more images are displayed by the first display control unit;
- a second display control unit adapted to, in response to the output instruction, display on the display unit a selection window for selecting a target image to be output;
- and
- an output unit adapted to output, to an external apparatus, an image selected by the user in the selection window as the target image to be output,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which a plurality of images are displayed as the first composite image by the first display control unit, the second display control unit displays the selection window such that it shows (a) a second composite image generated from the plurality of images composing the first composite image such that they are not overlaid with each other and (b) each of the plurality of images composing the first composite image,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which only one image is displayed by the first display control unit, the second display control unit displays the selection window such that it shows the only one image and it does not show the second composite image, and
- wherein if the selected image is one of the plurality of images composing the second composite image, then the selected image is output by the output unit in a form that the selected image is not composited with another image.
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An image processing method, comprising:
- a first display control step of displaying one or more images on a display unit while changing a number of images to be displayed, wherein when the number of images to be displayed is more than one, the first display control step displays the images as a first composite image arranged such that one image is overlaid with another image;
- a first acceptance step of accepting an output instruction from a user during a period in which the one or more images are displayed by the first display control step;
- a second display control step of, in response to the output instruction, displaying on the display unit a selection window for selecting a target image to be output;
- and
- an output step of outputting, to an external apparatus, an image selected by the user in the selection window as the target image to be output,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which a plurality of images are displayed as the first composite image by the first display control step, the second display control step displays the selection window such that it shows (a) a second composite image generated from the plurality of images composing the first composite image such that they are not overlaid with each other and (b) each of the plurality of images composing the first composite image,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which only one image is displayed by the first display control step, the second display control step displays the selection window such that it shows the only one image and it does not show the second composite image, and
- wherein if the selected image is one of the plurality of images composing the second composite image, then the selected image is output by the output step in a form that the selected image is not composited with another image.
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A computer program stored in a computer-readable storage medium, which causes a computer to execute an image processing method, the image processing method comprising:
- a first display control step of displaying one or more images on a display unit while changing a number of images to be displayed, wherein when the number of images to be displayed is more than one, the first display control step displays the images as a first composite image arranged such that one image is overlaid with another image;
- a first acceptance step of accepting an output instruction from a user during a period in which the one or more images are displayed by the first display control step;
- a second display control step of, in response to the output instruction, displaying on the display unit a selection window for selecting a target image to be output;
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- an output step of outputting, to an external apparatus, an image selected by the user in the selection window as the target image to be output,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which a plurality of images are displayed as the first composite image by the first display control step, the second display control step displays the selection window such that it shows (a) a second composite image generated from the plurality of images composing the first composite image such that they are not overlaid with each other and (b) each of the plurality of images composing the first composite image,
- wherein if the output instruction is accepted during a period in which only one image is displayed by the first display control step, the second display control step displays the selection window such that it shows the only one image and it does not show the second composite image, and
- wherein if the selected image is one of the plurality of images composing the second composite image, then the selected image is output by the output step in a form that the selected image is not composited with another image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.