PICTURE PRINT DELIVERY DEVICE, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: TSURUTA SHINICHI, YO YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.03.2006
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CHECKING-DEVICES; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a picture print delivery device, a picture print delivery method, and a picture print delivery program that allow a user to more precisely determine situations inside a picture-taking space in which he/she can move freely. SOLUTION: The picture print delivery device includes a photographic camera 21; a lighting unit 17a or the like for applying illuminating light to the user 6; a printer 12 for printing and outputting a composite image created on the basis of the images taken with the photographic camera 21; a CPU 100a that controls a photographic process for creating images using the lighting unit and the photographic camera 21, a post-photography image composition process for creating the composite image based on the images taken, and the like; and a range image camera 28 for creating a range image including information on the distance to a subject. The CPU 100a sets the requirements for creating images including the images taken and/or the composite image according to the range image created by the range-image camera 28 (S54, S58). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI