Imaging Apparatus Live View Subject Extraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing imaging methods, such as multiple exposure imaging, struggle to exclude unwanted subjects from composite images, limiting the user's freedom in selecting and excluding subjects, especially when the positional relationship between desired and undesired subjects is restricted.
Innovation Solution
An imaging apparatus and method that allows users to designate and extract specific marks or character strings from a live view image, enabling precise composition of these elements onto a second image, with features like optical character recognition and font changes, to enhance user control over the composite image.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If all of a plurality of captured images are superimposed to create a composite image, then the composite image is generated automatically, but unwanted subjects are also included in the composite image
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the desired subject from the first captured image by detecting specific features (such as facial recognition, object recognition, or user-designated regions) and separates it from the background and unwanted elements. This extracted subject is then composited onto the second captured image, allowing unwanted subjects to be excluded while maintaining efficient automated composite image generation.
2Device complexity
If the positional relationship between desired and unwanted subjects is restricted, then the imaging structure is simplified, but the ability to exclude unwanted subjects is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary subject identification and selection during the capture phase by using feature detection algorithms (such as facial recognition, object recognition, or eye-tracking technology) to identify desired subjects before composite image generation. This allows the system to flexibly select and exclude specific subjects regardless of their positional relationships, maintaining both simplified imaging structure and high adaptability.
3Ease of operation
If multiple exposure imaging is used to compose all captured images, then the imaging process is simplified, but user control over subject selection is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the system detects and identifies subjects in real-time during capture, provides information to the user about what will be included in the composite image, and allows user confirmation or modification of subject selection. This feedback loop maintains ease of operation while significantly increasing user control and flexibility in subject selection.
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AI summary
Provided are an imaging apparatus having a large degree of freedom relating to decision of a subject reflected in a composite image compared to the related art, in which all of a plurality of images are composed, and an operation program and an operation method for an imaging apparatus. A portable terminal as an example of an imaging apparatus has an imaging unit that images a subject, a display unit that displays an image captured by the imaging unit in a live view mode, an extraction unit, a composition unit, and a display control unit. The imaging unit acquires a first image. The extraction unit extracts a part of the first image as a composition target for image composition. The composition unit composes the composition target to a second image captured by the imaging unit and different from the first image. The display control unit displays the second image, to which the composition target is composed, on the display unit in a live view mode.