Television – Camera – system and detail – Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
Reexamination Certificate
1997-06-23
2001-02-13
Garber, Wendy (Department: 2712)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
C348S236000, C348S239000, C348S333020, C348S333120, C348S374000, C345S182000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06188432
ABSTRACT:
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
The disclosure of the following priority application is incorporated herein by reference: Japanese patent application No. JP-08-164289, filed on Jun. 25, 1996.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, and more particularly an information processing apparatus for use in an electronic camera or the like that records the image of an object after converting it to digital data.
2. Description of Related Art
In recent years, the use of electronic cameras that photograph (shoot) an object and record its image (the object image) using a charge control device (CCD) or the like, and record the object image in an internal memory or in removable memory cards or the like after converting the object image into digital data, is becoming more common in place of cameras that use film. An object image obtained with such an electronic camera may be immediately reproduced and displayed on a liquid crystal display screen (LCD) or the like without going through the developing and printing processes required by conventional cameras.
However, there is no apparatus that allows a user to input an arbitrary line drawing and display the line drawing superimposed on an object image shot with an electronic camera. In addition, there is no apparatus that can zoom up (enlarge) or zoom down (shrink) both a line drawing and an object image simultaneously.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the above, it would be advantageous to be able to display a line drawing and an object image together, and to be able to zoom the line drawing as the object image is zoomed. An information processing apparatus is therefore presented that can zoom both an object image and a superimposed line drawing.
In an information processing apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, a first zooming means zooms (enlarges or shrinks) the object image and a second zooming means zooms a line drawing superimposed on the object image. A selection means selects either a first mode in which the second zooming means zooms the line drawing as the first zooming means zooms the object image, or a second mode in which the second zooming means does not zoom the line drawing as the first zooming means zooms the object image. A control means controls the operation of the first zooming means and the second zooming means. The apparatus also includes an imaging means for forming the object image, a line drawing input means, a recording means for recording the object image and the line drawing, and a display means for displaying the object image and/or the line drawing.
By choosing between the first mode and the second mode, a user can select whether a line drawing is zoomed when an accompanying object image is zoomed, depending on whether he believes the relative positional relationship between the object image and line drawing is meaningful. By controlling the apparatus so that while in the first mode the second zooming means zooms the line drawing in response when the first zooming means zooms the object image, the positional relationship between the object image and the line drawing can be kept from changing. Accordingly, even when the object image is zoomed, it is possible to maintain the information denoted by the relative positional relationship between the object image and the line drawing.
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patent: 5463729 (1995-10-01), Kitaguchi
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patent: 5856821 (1999-01-01), Funahashi
Garber Wendy
Nikon Corporation
Oliff & Berridg,e PLC
Vu Ngoc-Yen
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