Image combining apparatus

Abstract

A picture combining apparatus that automatically displays a picture important to a user, and moreover displays that important picture combined in a screen configuration that is highly appealing visually. In this apparatus, a picture input section 102 inputs images making up a picture on an image-by-image basis, and a picture accumulation section 110 accumulates input pictures. A trigger generation section 104 that generates a trigger indicating the importance of a picture, and a combining trigger calculation section 106 calculates a combining trigger for calculating screen combining parameters using that trigger. A screen configuration calculation section 108 determines the presence or absence of screen combining using a combining trigger and calculates a screen configuration (more specifically, screen combining parameters). A sub image creation section 112 creates an image (sub image) to be used in combination with an input image (main image), and an image information adding section 114 adds image information of a sub image to that sub image. A screen combining section 116 combines a plurality of images (main and sub images) in one screen.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image synthesis device for synthesizing a plurality of images into one screen, and particularly to a method of selecting images important to the user for synthesis, and arranging the important images in the screen so as to be visually easy to watch. Background technique [0002] Due to the development of information and communication technology and the completion of related infrastructure in recent years, for example, images captured by cameras located in different places are received through transmission channels, so that remote monitoring or inspection is possible even from places far away from the cameras. It is also possible to monitor or view multiple images at one image receiving terminal. [0003] However, in order to monitor all images without omission, the same number of display screens as the number of camera images is required, making the image receiving terminal not only complicated but also expensive. ...

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Problems solved by technology

Since different images are sequentially displayed on one screen at a certain time interval, the problem with this system is that it is difficult to grasp the correspondence between the displayed image and the camera that shoots the image, and it is difficult to view the display.

[0009] However, in the above-mentioned conventional system, since multiple images are simply reduced and synthesized in the same size, the images that the user wants to view and the images that the user does not want to view are combined in the same size, making it difficult to view the images that are important to the user. image

[0010] Another problem is that when the user switches to the video he wants to watch and displays it, the important scenes in the video not selected by the user cannot be displayed

In particular, in monitoring applications, it is strongly required to be able to display important scenes such as abnormalities or emergencies, but in the existing system, important scenes are omitted, and it is necessary for the user to select and display abnormalities or emergency situations. to images of important scenes

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