Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kentaro Matsumoto

Kunihiro Yamamoto

Kiyoshi Kusama

Miyuki Enokida

Susumu Sugiura

Makoto Takaoka

Toyokazu Uda

Hiroyuki Nakanishi

Yuji Kobayashi

Yasuo Fukuda

Yoshinobu Mita

Shigetada Kobayashi

Junichi Shishizuka

Mitsumasa Sugiyama

Yoji Kaneko

Katsutoshi Hisada

Yukari Shimomura

Hidetomo Sohma

Masaharu Eguchi

Yoshihiro Shigemura

Hirowo Inoue

Masahiko Takaku

Yuji Suga

Jun Fujisawa

Yukuo Karube

Kenichi Kotoku

Katsuki Ishii

Masami Fukumoto

Atsushi Takahashi

Masami Kato

Takashi Hanamoto

Yasuyuki Nakamura

Tomoyuki Miyashita

Yasunori Hashimoto

Hirokazu Uchio

Tsunehiro Makino

Masami Uda

To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move an arbitrary point of an image displayed in an image display area among image data; a step of calculating an image movement amount and a magnification ratio in response to the instruction to move the arbitrary point; and a step displaying a predetermined area of the image data in the image display area on the basis of the image movement amount and the magnification ratio, which are calculated in the calculating step.

Image editing method, image editing apparatus, program for implementing image editing method, and recording medium recording program

To generating a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, an original image is divided into tiles and a material image having a characteristic similar to that of an image in each tile is applied to the tile. If more than one version of image data having different resolutions is provided as the image data for the material image, a low-resolution version of the image data is used to calculate a characteristic quantity of the image. Thus, the amount of time required to generate the mosaic image can be reduced.

Method, apparatus, and storage media for image processing

An object of this invention is to provide a data structure description method and processing method, which can present the contents of data to the user in every devices as much as possible. A data processing method of this invention has a parsing step of parsing a structured document having second data which is included in first data described in a first markup language, is described in a second markup language, and is required to present contents corresponding to the first data, and a processing step of executing, if it is determined in a determination step that a part described in the first markup language of the parsed structured document cannot be understood, a process of data on the basis of a part described in the second markup language.

Data structure, processing method of structured document described using that data structure, program for implementing the method, and storage medium storing the program

This invention provides structured document data and a contents processing method, which can assure high versatility and process each individual required information using an application corresponding to processing performance in each device, so as to solve the problems in the aforementioned conventional description method. Structured document data according to this invention has designation information that designates an item position of a list held in a first document element which holds item information associated with a reference destination of contents as a list, and a second document element that holds information required to present the contents at the reference destination described in the item information corresponding to the designation information.

Structured document data, contents processing method, program for implementing that process, and storage medium storing program

Reduced image data of images recorded in a memory card of a digital camera is transmitted from the digital camera to a portable phone. In the portable phone, while viewing the photographs one by one, a print order instruction operation is performed on the desired images. The print order information is transmitted from the portable phone to the digital camera, and the information is recorded as a print order file into the memory card in the digital camera.

Print order recording system that provides notification if a requested image is absent

A plurality of images and image features of each of the plurality of images are stored in a form correlated with the images in an external storage device of an image retrieval apparatus. In retrieval of a desired image from the plurality of images that have been stored in the external storage device, a plurality of image features regarding one image are acquired by varying, over a predetermined range, each of the image features that have been stored in the external storage device. A fuzzy image search is conducted by calculating the degree of similarity between each of the plurality of images and a retrieval source image based upon the image features that have been acquired and the image features of the retrieval-source image.

Image retrieval method and apparatus

Various recording apparatuses and methods, each capable of repeatedly attaching the same meta-data as information related to binary data to a plurality of binary data to generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data. A first recording apparatus generates binary data by image sensing and also generate meta-data as information related to the binary data. This apparatus can repeatedly attach the same meta-data generated to the generated binary data to easily generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data. A second recording apparatus loads and uses binary data instead of generating it and can generate meta-data and repeatedly attach the same meta-data to a plurality of loaded binary data to easily generate binary data having meta-data. A third recording apparatus can generate the meta-data using a dedicated meta-data generation apparatus, store the meta-data in a storage medium, and load and use the meta-data from the storage medium, and also generate binary data and repeatedly attach the same meta-data loaded to generated binary data to easily generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data.

Recording apparatus and method and storage medium

An image as a basis of a mosaic image is segmented into M&#xd7;N areas by the process shown in FIG.(S), and the image characteristics of the segmented areas (S), and those of source images (S) are obtained. When the source image is a moving image, the image characteristics of that moving image are obtained from those of a plurality of still images in the moving image (S). Source images corresponding to the segmented areas are determined (S) and pasted (S), thus generating a mosaic image.

Image processing method and apparatus

In searching for a desired image from an external storage device which stores a plurality of images, similarity between a designated search source image and each of the plurality of images is calculated on the basis of the feature amount of the designated search source image and the feature amounts of the plurality of images. A similar image is extracted from the plurality of images on the basis of the calculated image similarity. In calculating the similarity, an image is segmented into a plurality of regions, different weights are set for the respective regions, and the similarity is calculated using the set weights.

Image search method and apparatus

A plurality of image data are stored in a hard disk device in correspondence with their image feature amounts. An image is input using an input window. A CPU computes the image feature amount of the input image. The CPU also computes image similarity on the basis of the computed image feature amount and those of image data stored in the hard disk device. A list of image data as search results are displayed on a display unit on the basis of the computed image similarity. Image data stored in the hard disk device are read out into the input window.

Image search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory

An image processing method and apparatus for forming a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, dividing a first image that is the basis of the mosaic image into a plurality of tile areas, comparing each tile area with each of the material images, selecting a material image that most resembles the tile area in terms of color or luminance and pasting this material image to the tile area, thereby creating a mosaic image.

Image processing method, apparatus and storage medium therefor

Since a plurality of image data are stored in a single file, high-speed access to image data and easy management of image data are allowed, and information that pertains to each image data can be acquired from a source outside the image file. As an arrangement for this purpose, an image data area () continuously stores a plurality of compressed image data. An index area () stores reference information to a source outside the file, which pertains to each of the plurality of image data stored in the image data area (), in the order the plurality of image data are stored. A feature amount data area () stores feature amount data obtained from the images stored in the image data area (). Furthermore, an image information area () stores header information including information indicating the start position of each area.

Image storage method and apparatus

In the retrieval of images that resemble a target image from a plurality of images, the image feature quantity of the target image is calculated when the target image is specified. The feature quantity is calculated upon removing an unnecessary area from the specified target image, and retrieval of resembling images is performed using the feature quantity that has been calculated. The unnecessary area is determined automatically based upon a change in luminance in directions vertically and horizontally of the periphery of the target image. Thus, the calculation of feature quantities from which unnecessary portions in an image have been eliminated can be executed with ease and more effective retrieval of resembling images can be carried out.

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Kentaro Matsumoto