AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING METHOD

• Main Authors: TATSUMI SATOSHI, OKUDA MASAHARU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.04.2008
• 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; CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic photographing apparatus in which each of users is capable of obtaining one image that becomes an object of graffiti on the basis of a photographic image (in which the user himself is photographed) preferable for the users, respectively. SOLUTION: A main control unit 80 of the present photographing apparatus selects two regions from among photographic images (S40) after a plurality of photographic images are photographed by two users Ua, Ub (S20, S30), sets a positional relationship or preceding/following relation of the two regions after a chroma key mask corresponding to each of the regions is created (S50), acquires a synthetic photographic image in which the chroma key is composed (S60) by performing image correction processing such as erasing an unwanted image region, and prints the created synthetic image (S80) through graffiti processing to the synthetic photographic image (S70). Thus, one synthetic image can be obtained which seems to be just stuck on a background image by cutting portions of the users Ua, Ub away from the photographic image that becomes the object. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT