Source: http://www.google.com/patents/US20070053668?dq=5311516
Timestamp: 2018-01-21 01:22:02
Document Index: 636000736

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 120', 'Application No. 2000', 'Application No. 2000', 'Application No. 2000', '§ 119', 'art 14', 'art 14']

Patent US20070053668 - Image Reproducing Apparatus and Digital Camera - Google Patents
An image reproducing device that displays frames or index images of still images and moving images so that a user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them in one-frame reproducing or index reproducing. The display style of the still images is different from that of...http://www.google.com/patents/US20070053668?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20070053668 - Image Reproducing Apparatus and Digital Camera
Publication number US20070053668 A1
Application number US 11/552,743
Also published as US7145601, US7710489, US20010008416
Publication number 11552743, 552743, US 2007/0053668 A1, US 2007/053668 A1, US 20070053668 A1, US 20070053668A1, US 2007053668 A1, US 2007053668A1, US-A1-20070053668, US-A1-2007053668, US2007/0053668A1, US2007/053668A1, US20070053668 A1, US20070053668A1, US2007053668 A1, US2007053668A1
Inventors Takeshi Misawa, Kimiaki Nakada, Toshita Hara
Image Reproducing Apparatus and Digital Camera
US 20070053668 A1
An image reproducing device that displays frames or index images of still images and moving images so that a user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them in one-frame reproducing or index reproducing. The display style of the still images is different from that of frames of the moving images For example, each still image has a white frame like a picture, and a frame of each moving image has perforations like a movie film. Therefore, the user can distinguish the still images from the moving images when looking at them.
a selecting device that selects a file from a storage medium in which both files of still images and files of moving images are stored;
a display device that displays a still image or a moving image;
a first display control device that, when a still image is recorded in a file selected by the selecting device, displays the still image on the display device;
a second display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in a file selected by the selecting device, repetitively reproduces some frames within the range of overall frames that constitute the moving image to make the image look animated, so that the moving image is displayed in a simplified format on the display device; and
a third display control device that displays a moving image in a file currently selected by the selecting device on the display device if reproduction of a moving image is instructed while the moving image is displayed in a simplified format on the display device.
an index display instructing device that selects a plurality of files from a storage medium in which both files of still images and files of moving images are stored and instructs display of index images that include plurality of frames corresponding to still images or moving images in the files;
a display device that displays a still image, moving image, or index image;
a first display control device that, when the index display instructing device instructs display of index images, constructs the index images based on a plurality of files stored in the storage medium and displays the index images on the display device, the first display control device repetitively reproducing some frames within the range of all frames that constitute an moving image to make the image look animated for frames that correspond to moving images among the frames constituting the index images so as to display the moving image in a simplified format;
a selecting device that selects an arbitrary frame from index images displayed on the display device;
a second display control device that, when a still image is recorded in a file that corresponds to the flame selected by the selecting device, displays the still image on the display device; and
a third display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in a file that corresponds to the frame selected by the selecting device, displays the moving image on the display device.
a first display control device that, when a still image is recorded in the file selected by the selecting device, displays the still image on the display device;
a second display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in the file selected by the selecting device, repetitively one-frame displays some frames extracted from the range of all frames constituting the moving image on the display device at predetermined intervals; and
a third display control device that displays the moving image in the file currently selected by the selecting device on the display device if reproduction of a moving image is instructed while the frames are repetitively one-frame displayed on the display device at the predetermined intervals.
an index display instructing device that selects a plurality of files from a storage medium in which both files of still images and files of moving images are stored and instructs display of index images that include a plurality of frames corresponding to still images or moving images in the files;
a first display control device that, when the index display instructing device instructs display of index images, constructs the index images based on a plurality of files stored in the storage medium and displays the index images on the display device, the first display control device repetitively one-frame displaying frames extracted from the range of all frames constituting the moving image at predetermined intervals with respect to frames that correspond to moving images among the frames making up the index images;
a selecting device that selects an arbitrary frame from the index images displayed on the display device;
a second display control device that, when a still image is recorded in the file that corresponds to the frame selected by the selecting device, displays the still image on the display device; and
a third display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in the file that corresponds to the frame selected by the selecting device, displays the moving image on the display device.
a first selecting device that selects a file from a storage medium in which at least file images with sound are stored;
a second selecting device that selects in one action either image reproduction with sound and image reproduction without sound when the image with sound is reproduced;
a display device that displays at least images with sound;
a display control device that displays an image with sound recorded in the file selected by the first selecting device on the display device; and
a sound reproducing device that reproduces sound of an image with sound, the sound reproduction device reproducing sound of an image with sound when image reproduction with sound is selected by the second selecting device and prohibiting sound reproduction of the moving image with sound when an image without sound is selected.
6. The image reproducing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein
the storage medium stores files of still images without sound, still images with sound, moving images without sound, or moving images with sound, and the sound reproducing device reproduces sound only when a file of a still image with sound or a file of a moving image with sound is selected by the first selecting device and image reproduction with sound is selected by the second selecting device.
a shooting mode selecting device that selects either still image shooting mode or moving image shooting mode;
an imaging device that takes a still image when the still image shooting mode is selected and takes a moving image when the moving image shooting mode is selected;
a recording device that records files of the taken still images and moving images to a storage medium;
a selecting device that selects a file from the storage medium in which both the files of still images and the files of moving images are stored;
a second display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in the file selected by the selecting device, repetitively reproduces some frames in the range of all frames constituting the moving image so as to display the moving image on the display device in a simplified format; and
a third display control device that displays the moving image in the file that is currently selected by the selecting device on the display device when reproduction of a moving image is instructed while the moving image is displayed on the display device in a simplified format.
a recording device that records a file of the taken still image and a file of the moving image in a recording medium;
an index display instructing device that selects files from the recording medium and instructs display of index images that include a plurality of frames corresponding to still images or moving images in the files;
a first display control device that, when the index display instructing device instructs display of index images, constructs the index images based on a plurality of files stored in the storage medium and displays the index images on the display device, the first display control device repetitively reproducing some frames within the range of all frames that constitute an moving image to make the image look animated with respect to frames that correspond to moving images among the frames making up the index images so as to display the moving image in a simplified format;
a second display control device that, when a still image is recorded in a file that corresponds to the frame selected by the selecting device, displays the still image on the display device; and
a third display control device that when a moving image is recorded in a file that corresponds to the frame selected by the selecting device, displays the moving image on the display device.
a recording device that records files of the taken still image and moving image to a storage medium;
a selecting device that selects a file from the storage medium;
a second display control device that, when a moving image is recorded in the file selected by the selecting device, repetitively one-frame displays some frames extracted from the range of the all frames constituting the moving image on the display device at predetermined intervals; and
a third display control device that displays the moving image in the file that is currently selected by the selecting device on the display device when reproduction of a moving image is instructed while the frames are repetitively one-frame displayed on the display device at predetermined intervals.
a first display control device that, when the index display instructing device instructs display of index images, constructs the index images based on a plurality of files stored in the storage medium and displays the index images on the display device, the first display control device repetitively one-frame displaying some frames extracted from the range of all frames constituting the moving image at predetermined intervals with respect to frames that corresponds to moving images among the frames making up the index images;
an acquisition device that acquires a still image without sound or still image with sound when the still image shooting mode is selected and acquires a moving image without sound or moving image with sound when the moving image shooting mode is selected;
a recording device that records a file of a still image without sound or a still image with sound acquired during the still image shooting mode, and a file of a moving image without sound or a moving image with sound acquired during the moving image shooting mode in a recording medium;
a first selecting device that selects a file from the recording medium which stores both files of still images or moving images without sound and files of still images or moving images with sound;
a second selecting device that selects either image reproduction with sound or image reproduction without sound when the still image with sound or moving image with sound is reproduced;
a display control device that when a still image is recorded in the file selected by the first selecting device, displays the still image on the display device, and when a moving image is recorded in the file selected by the first selecting device, displays the moving image on the display device; and
a sound reproducing device that reproduces sound of the still image with sound or moving image with sound, the sound reproducing device reproducing sound of the still image with sound or the moving image with sound when image reproduction with sound is selected by the second selecting device, and prohibiting reproduction of sound of the still image with sound or the moving image with sound when image reproduction without sound is selected.
This application is a Divisional of co-pending application Ser. No. 09/758,423 filed on Jan. 12, 2001, and for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. § 120; and this application claims priority of Application No. 2000-006426 filed in Japan on Jan. 14, 2000, Application No. 2000-006427 filed in Japan on Jan. 14, 2000, and Application No. 2000-006428 filed in Japan on Jan. 14, 2000, under 35 U.S.C. § 119; the entire contents of all are hereby incorporated by reference.
Also, the digital camera displays the still images and the first frames of the moving images when the user presses a next image button or a last-image button in one-frame reproduction. If the user presses the execution button when the first frame of a moving image is being displayed, the moving image is displayed.
A light passes the taking lens 10 and the shutter and diaphragm 50 and reaches the imaging device 52. The shutter prevents smears due to an incidence of another light when signals are read from the imaging device 52, but it may be omitted in accordance with the structure of the imaging device 52. The diaphragm may be one diaphragm, and it may be composed of some diaphragms that can be switched. The light emitting part 14 emits a light to illuminate a subject when the brightness is low or it is made to do so regardless of the brightness The light emitting part 14 may be omitted in case the sensitivity of the imaging device 52 is high.
The digital camera 1 has three types of image reproduction; namely a one-frame reproduction for reproducing the images one by one, an index reproduction for reproducing some index images (four index images in the embodiment) and a moving image reproduction for reproducing a moving image. The moving image reproduction can be started when a frame of the moving image is displayed in the one-frame reproduction or the index reproduction. In the one-frame reproductions the displayed frame of the moving image is the first frame or the middle frame of the moving image.
In FIG. 5, the index images 70 of the still images have the white frames in the same way as in FIG. 4, and an index image 74 of the moving image is composed of some frames that are consecutively and repeatedly displayed so that it looks like the moving image. The flames of the index image 74 are not necessarily consecutive frames of the moving image.
The four frames 80A-80D of the moving image will now be explained.
In case the moving image is composed of 400 frames, the frame 80A is extracted from the 1st frame through the 100th frame, and the frame 80 is extracted from the 101st frame through the 200th frame, and the frame 80C is extracted from the 201st frame through the 300th frame, and the frame 80D is extracted from the 301st frame through the 400th frame.
The four frames 80A-80D of the moving image are displayed like a four-scene comic in this way, and thus the user can grasp the whole moving image before reproducing it.
The four frames 80A-80D are displayed in the embodiment, but the present invention is not limited to this. For example, nine frames may be displayed In this case, the moving image is divided into nine parts, and one frame is extracted from each part.
On the other hand, if the file contains a moving image at step 14, the CPU 68 displays a part of the moving image (step 24). At this time, one frame of the moving image is displayed with perforations (see the index image 72 in FIG. 4), or some frames of the moving image are consecutively and repeatedly displayed (see the index image 74 in FIG. 5), or one frame of the moving image is displayed while shaking vertically (see the index image 78 in FIG. 6), or four frames of the moving image are displayed together (see the frames 80A-80D in FIG. 7).
If the user presses the right key of the cross key 30 at step 26 or step 30, the CPU 68 reads the image data of the next file (step 20) and returns to step 14 If the user presses the left key at step 26 or step 30, the CPU 68 reads the image data of the last file (step 22) and returns to step 14.
The flow chart of FIG. 9 is different from that of FIGS. 8 in that it has steps 40, 42 and 44 instead of step 28.
The digital camera 1 records sound with the moving image in the built-in memory or the memory card 64, and has a determining device for determining to reproduce the sound with the moving image or reproduce only the moving image. The determining device is the up key and the down key of the cross key 30 in FIG. 2.
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U.S. Classification 386/225, 386/E05.072, 348/E05.047
International Classification H04N5/232, H04N5/00, H04N1/21, H04N5/907, H04N5/926, H04N5/77
Cooperative Classification H04N1/2112, H04N5/772, H04N5/9261, H04N1/00453, H04N1/212, H04N5/907, H04N2101/00, H04N5/23293
European Classification H04N1/00D3D4M2, H04N1/21B3C, H04N1/21B3, H04N5/77B, H04N5/232V