# US 9,519,950 B2 · Image generating apparatus and image generating method

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- Number: US 9,519,950 B2
- Document ID: US9519950B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/574,731
- Filed: 2014-12-18
- Published: 2015-07-23
- Granted: 2016-12-13
- Earliest claimed: 2013-12-20
- Assignees: Furyu Corporation
- Applicants: Furyu Corporation
- Inventors: Tsuneo Okada; Yuki Taji; Megumi Fuwa; Sayaka Yoshimoto; Aki Imahira; Takashi Nakajima; Hitoshi Hida; Masato Tsukada; Ikuko Tachibana; Reiko Hashio; Moeko Hamade; Michiyo Wakayoshi; Kazuto Katada; Masanori Suminaga
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9519950B2

## CPC

- G06T 11/00: Two-dimensional [2D] image generation
- G06T 3/40: Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
- G06T 11/60: Creating or editing images; Combining images with text
- 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}
- H04N 5/265: Mixing
- G06V 40/10: Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
- G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING

## Abstract

An image generating apparatus includes an imaging device that photographs a user to generate a photographed image, and a control device that performs a process of compositing an image for composition with the photographed image. The control device detects a plurality of parts of a body of the user from the photographed image, adjusts the image for composition in size, position, and direction depending on a size, a position, and a direction of each of the plurality of the detected parts, and composites the image for composition with the photographed image with the adjusted size, at the adjusted position, and in the adjusted direction.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An image generating apparatus comprising:
an imaging device that photographs a user to generate a photographed image; and
a control device that performs a process of compositing an image for composition with the photographed image, wherein the control device
detects a plurality of parts of a body of the user from the photographed image,
adjusts the image for composition in size, position, and direction depending on a size, a position, and a direction of each of the plurality of the detected parts, and
composites the image for composition with the photographed image with the adjusted size, at the adjusted position, and in the adjusted direction:
wherein a plurality of images for composition are categorized by predetermined groups;
wherein the images for composition are displayed in units of groups on an edit screen; and
wherein, when a plurality of users are included in the photographed image and one of the images for composition is selected by the user on the edit screen, the control device composites the selected image for composition with each of the users included in the photographed image.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The image generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of parts includes a plurality of reference points for identifying the part.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The image generating apparatus according to claim 2,
wherein the plurality of the parts includes facial organs; and
wherein the control device detects the part based on a plurality of reference points provided for the facial organ.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The image generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control device detects the plurality of the parts for each user.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The image generating apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit that displays a moving image photographed by the imaging device in real time;
wherein the control device composites the image for composition with the moving image displayed by the display unit in real time.

### Claim 6

An image generating method comprising:
photographing a user to generate a photographed image;
detecting a plurality of parts of a body of the user from the photographed image;
managing images for composition which are categorized by predetermined groups;
adjusting the image for composition in size, position, and direction depending on a size, a position, and a direction of a plurality of the detected parts;
displaying a plurality of images for composition in units of groups on an edit screen; and
compositing the image for composition selected by the user on the edit screen with the photographed image with the adjusted size, at the adjusted position, and in the adjusted direction;
wherein, when a plurality of users are included in the photographed image and one of the images for composition is selected by the user on the edit screen, the selected image for composition is composited with each of the users included in the photographed image.