Patent ID: 8810691
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject to generate electronic image data of the subject; a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data; an image separating unit that separates a subject image and a background image from the image corresponding to the image data; a special effect input unit that receives information related to special effects respectively applied to the subject image and the background image separated by the image separating unit; a special effect image generating unit that generates a special effect image for each of the subject image and the background image by applying special effects corresponding to information received by the special effect input unit individually to the subject image and the background image; a storing unit that stores special effect information for assigning an advisability corresponding to a combination of special effects which the special effect image generating unit applies to the subject image and the background image; a synthetic image generating unit that generates a synthetic image using the special effect images for the subject image and the background image generated by the special effect image generating unit; and a display control unit that controls the display unit to display the image corresponding to the image data or the synthetic image generated by the synthetic image generating unit, wherein the special effect image generating unit applies a special effect to one of the subject image and the background image to generate a special effect image, and when the synthetic image generating unit synthesizes the special effect image with the other one of the subject image and the background image to generate a synthesized synthetic image, the display control unit controls the display unit to display the synthesized synthetic image, and controls the display unit to display information related to special effects which need to be applied to the other one of the subject image and the background image, in order from the highest advisability corresponding to a combination with the special effect applied to the one of the subject image and the background image, referring to special effect information stored in the storing unit.