PHOTOGRAPHING AMUSEMENT MACHINE, PHOTOGRAPHING AMUSEMENT METHOD AND PHOTOGRAPHING AMUSEMENT MACHINE CONTROL PROGRAM

• Main Authors: ISHIDA HIROYUKI, KATO TAIHEI, KASAI MEIKO, SHIOMOTO SEIGO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.03.2012
• 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; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photographing amusement machine capable of efficiently generating novel images with a high completeness.SOLUTION: The photographing amusement machine has a camera and a printer. A CPU in the machine generates photographic images 650 for a regular composite image by controlling the camera and then it determines a layout image for collage composite image which includes the regular composite image, a photographic image having a subject and a background image, and which is larger in image size than the regular composite image. The CPU arranges on the determined layout image the photographic images 650 and a subject image photographed by the camera, and displays the layout image on a display. After displaying the layout image, the CPU generates a photographic image for collage composite image by controlling the camera.