Patent ID: 6300983
Filing Date: 2001-10-09
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
An electronic kaleidoscopic apparatus comprising:image pickup means for converting a picked-up optical image to a pickup signal;kaleidoscopic image forming means for receiving said pickup signal and forming an image signal of a kaleidoscopic pattern, said kaleidoscopic image forming means including:image extracting means for receiving said pickup signal and cutting a partial pickup signal corresponding to a specific polygonal region in the picked-up scene out of said pickup signal in accordance with an external instruction, andimage processing means for successively repeating a step of forming a mirror image by inverting/duplicating an original image of said partial pickup signal along each edge, defining a mirror image symmetry axis, of said polygonal region with respect to said mirror image formed in each said step thereby forming said image signal of said kaleidoscopic pattern filling up a screen; anddisplay means for outputting a corresponding image in response to an output of said kaleidoscopic image forming means,further comprising sound means for receiving said partial pickup signal and successively forming and outputting a sound of a corresponding tone color and a corresponding volume on the basis of the brightness and the hue of said pickup signal.