JP5079649B2 - Effect image creating device, effect image creating method, effect image creating program, and recording medium - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention stores, for example, an image of each page (page image) such as a picture book as electronic information, and an image such as a character depicted on each page moves in an electronic picture book that is displayed for each page on a computer screen. An effect image creating apparatus and an effect image creating method for providing an effect when performing an animation effect that moves or changes a background image, and further an effect for causing a computer to create an effect image The present invention relates to an image creation program and a recording medium.

Conventionally, for example, as disclosed in Patent Document 1, a background image and a moving image in a picture book are written on a recording medium, and the background image and the moving image read from the recording medium are combined on the display unit. An electronic picture book display device has been proposed in which an animation function or reading aloud is added to the picture book so as to give an effect that cannot be obtained only by a still picture.
JP 5-120400 A

That is, according to the electronic picture book display device, the picture book page is displayed, and the animals and the scenery in the scene are animated while reproducing the sound reading, BGM, and sound effects for reading the text on the page. It is.
There is also an electronic picture book display device in which a secret effect such as a change in the screen or a sound effect is given by designating a specific position of an image in a page with a pointing device or the like.

However, according to the electronic picture book display device described above, in the image shown on the display unit, the location where the screen changes, such as the type of animation operation and the switching timing, and the type of change are fixed. Not only does it not match the taste of the reader (picture book readers), but the phenomenon of being tired of the freshness of changes over time will occur.
In addition, when the secret picture is produced in the electronic picture book display device, when the picture book is viewed for the first time, it is expected that the place causing the change will not be understood. However, if the place is understood, there is a problem that the interest does not continue.

  And in the electronic picture book display device, various effects can be conceived when a presentation effect is applied to the page image on the screen, but various changes can be obtained in the image in the page image with a simple operation. preferable.

  The present invention has been proposed in view of the above circumstances, and by setting an effect reference point, an effect image that can provide various effect effects rich in changes to images in a page image by a simple operation. It is an object of the present invention to provide an effect image creation program and a recording medium for causing a computer to execute an effect image creation method and an effect image creation method.

In order to achieve the above object, an effect image creating apparatus according to claim 1 of the present invention is an apparatus that applies an effect to a page image displayed on a screen, and sets an effect area in the page image and the screen. And a production effect setting means for providing a production effect on the basis of the positional relationship between the center point (production origin) of the production area and the production reference point. It is a feature.

Effect image creating apparatus according to claim 2, Oite to claim 1, stage effects imparted by the stage effect setting means is characterized in that the text display area to be written anew in the page image is to change .

Effect image creating apparatus according to claim 3, Oite to claim 1, stage effects imparted by the stage effect setting means is characterized in that in which the entire page image changes.

Effect image creating apparatus according to claim 4, Oite to claim 1, stage effects imparted by the stage effect setting means is characterized that the displayed part image portion in the page image is to change .

Effect image creating apparatus according to claim 5, Oite to claim 4, the presentation area setting means for setting an effect region corresponding to the effect subject to component image from the page image, based on the image of the presentation area Equipped with a component image automatic extraction means for automatically extracting component images,
The effect effect setting means sets an effect reference point for an image generated based on the component image.

The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 6, Oite in claim 1, if the secret effect causing the image change unexpected in the page image is selected, the effect reference point, the mouse cursor in the secret effect playback It is characterized by the position.

An effect image creating method according to claim 7 is an effect area setting step of selecting an entire area, a partial area of a page image displayed on a screen, or a text display part newly written in a page image as an effect area to which an effect is given. An effect reference point setting step for setting an arbitrary position in the screen on which the page image is displayed as an effect reference point, and a positional relationship between the center point of the effect area and the effect reference point. And a production effect setting step of selecting and giving contents .

An effect image creating program according to claim 8 is characterized in that each step of the effect image creating method according to claim 7 can be executed by a computer.

A recording medium according to claim 9 stores the effect image creation program according to claim 8 .

According to the effect image creating device of claim 1 , by setting the effect reference point and the center point (effect origin) of the effect area, the effect of the effect can be given based on the positional relationship between the two, so that the page image In addition, when an effect such as rotation / movement of the component image displayed on the page image is applied, it is possible to easily provide an effect with a large rotation radius and moving distance.

According to the effect image creation device of claim 2 , the rotation based on the positional relationship between the effect reference point and the center point (effect origin) of the effect region with respect to the text display portion as the text newly written in the page image・ Changes such as movement can be given as production effects.

According to the effect image creation device of claim 3, an effect is provided in which the entire background of the page image is changed by changing the entire page image based on the positional relationship between the center point of the effect region and the effect reference point. Can be made.

According to the effect image creating device of claim 4 , the part image such as the character drawn on the page image moves on the basis of the positional relationship between the center point of the effect area and the effect reference point . It is possible to give an effect such that a part image of a character or the like moves with respect to the background.

According to the effect image creating device of claim 5 , by providing the effect area setting means and the component image automatic extracting means, the effect reference point is set for the image generated based on the component image, and the center point of the effect area A production effect can be given based on the positional relationship between the production reference point and the production reference point.

According to the effect image creating apparatus of the sixth aspect , by moving the position of the mouse cursor during reproduction of the secret effect, the position becomes the effect reference point, so that a dynamic effect can be enjoyed.

According to the effect image creation method of claim 7, by executing each step, the entire page image or an image (part image) such as a character is determined based on the positional relationship between the center point of the effect area and the effect reference point. Thus, it is possible to provide a production effect that is rich in various changes with a large movement amount by a simple operation.

  According to the effect image creation program of claim 8 and the recording medium of claim 9, each step indicated by the effect image creation method can be read into a computer and executed.

Hereinafter, an effect image creating apparatus of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the effect image creating apparatus. The effect image creation device stores a plurality of images captured for each page as electronic information, creates an effect image in which various effect effects are set for the stored image, and can reproduce the created effect image for each page. It is a device to do.

  The hardware of the effect image creation device can be realized by a general-purpose information processing device such as a personal computer. The effect image creating apparatus is composed of a CPU 1, a ROM 2, a RAM 3, a sound source device 4 composed of software as a sound source, a DSP for effect addition, a scanner device 5 for reading an image, and a pointing device such as a keyboard and a mouse. Input device 6 and a display device 7 such as a liquid crystal display. As the display device 7, a well-known display means for displaying the processing result of the personal computer, such as a liquid crystal display, can be used. In addition, an external storage device 8 for inputting / outputting data to / from the recording medium is connected to the personal computer, and voice and the like are input and stored via the A / D converter 9. A microphone 10 is connected.

In the ROM 2 of the computer, an effect image creation program for creating an effect image is installed from a recording medium attached to the external storage device 8, or downloaded from a predetermined URL via the Internet.
The CPU 1 executes various processes (each step) in accordance with a predetermined control program (effect image creation program) installed by the above-described procedure, and controls the entire apparatus. The image storage means 11, the effect area setting means 12. By providing the effect effect setting means 15 and the effect reproduction means 16 as main functions, a plurality of images captured for each page are stored as electronic information, and the stored images can be displayed on the display device 7 for each page. .

  Further, the CPU 1 includes the component image extraction unit 13 and the background image creation unit 14, and extracts and stores only the component image as electronic information from the component image drawn on the background constituting a part of the page image. The background image below the extracted component image can be automatically created.

The RAM 3 temporarily stores information used for processing in the CPU 1.
A sound system 4 a including a D / A converter, an amplifier, and a speaker is connected to the sound source device 4.

Therefore, the effect image creating apparatus installs or downloads the effect image creating program in the personal computer, thereby reading and storing the page image in the hard disk of the personal computer, and the effect in the read page image. Effect area setting means 12 for setting an area to be applied, component image extracting means 13 for extracting a part image from the set effect area, background image creating means 14 for creating a background image under the extracted component image, While providing the effect effect setting means 15 for making the effect effect correspond to the set effect area and the effect reproduction means 16 for reproducing the page image on which the effect is given, an image creation mode for reading an image, and for the captured image Production setting mode (editing mode) that gives the desired production effects, and production effects It is configured to display on the display unit 7 switches the effect image reproduction mode (viewing mode) for playing a given image.
That is, the display device 7 displays the read image in the image creation mode (reading mode), displays the effect setting screen for creating the effect image in the effect setting mode (editing mode), and displays the effect image playback mode. In (viewing mode), the effect-set image with the effect is reproduced.

  The image storage unit 11 stores an image read from the scanner device 5 as each page image in the image creation mode. The image read from the scanner device 5 is each page of a picture book, a handwritten image, or the like, and an image based on electronic information photographed by a digital camera or the like may be directly taken into the image storage unit 11. Furthermore, each image stored in advance as a picture book image may be read out and loaded from the external storage device 8 or the like into the effect image creation program installed by the recording medium. Alternatively, existing image data captured by a digital camera or the like stored in a storage device described later may be selected and loaded.

The effect area setting means 12 designates each page image or a part of the page image displayed on the display device 7 as an effect area in the effect setting mode, and stores this.
In the pointing device of the input device 6, the amount of movement in the X and Y directions is detected and added to the cursor coordinate data of the cursor point register on the RAM 3, so that the cursor on the display device 7 is based on this coordinate data. Is determined. Then, reproduction time data corresponding to the coordinate data of the position designated as the effect area in each page image displayed on the display device 7 is created as an initial value and stored in the effect area setting means 12.

The characteristic configuration of the present invention is that an effect reference point that is an arbitrary position in the screen of the display unit is set in the case where an effect is given to an image or the like displayed in the effect in the page image . The production effect setting means 15 for providing a production effect is provided on the basis of the positional relationship with the center point (production origin) of the production area.
In other words, the effect effect setting means 15 sets an effect that changes the image in the page image based on the positional relationship between the effect reference point and the effect origin . Further, the production effect setting unit 15 includes an image processing unit because an image change (for example, a case where a “ripple” of a “special effect production” described later is produced) is accompanied when the production effect is given. Configured.
Setting of the effect is performed for a text document newly inserted into the page image, the entire page image, a component image such as a character displayed on the page image, and the like. By providing the component image extraction means (automatic part image extraction means) 13 and the background image creation means 14, it is possible to automatically extract the part image from the page image and automatically create the background image below the part image. I am doing so.

  When effect setting is performed on the page image, it is performed on the effect setting screen 200 as shown in FIG. 2 displayed in the effect setting mode (editing mode). On the effect setting screen 200, a page image 201 that is a spread state of a picture book is displayed in the center portion, and by clicking each icon of the page development section 202 displayed in the upper center portion of the screen, the left page, the right page, Each page of the first page of the picture book is displayed, and a production effect is set. The operation key window 203 is provided with a playback button for playing back and confirming the set effect, a stop button for stopping playback, and a rewind button for returning the picture book page to the beginning of playback during playback. ing.

On the upper left of the effect setting screen 200, a display unit 204 indicating that the effect setting is currently being performed is displayed, and “image” 205, “effect” 206, “output” 207, “ Each window of “print” 208 is displayed, and each process is executed by clicking these windows.
An “image” 205 for reading a page image is used when reading a page image from the scanner device 5. “Production” 206 is to set an effect on the page image. “Output” 207 is to reproduce the effect set in the page image. “Print” 208 prints an image in a range specified in the displayed page image 201.
At the bottom of the screen, a timeline 40 indicating the playback time for each set effect is displayed. The description of the timeline 40 will be described later.

The types of animation productions that use the production reference points to provide production effects include “text production”, which produces an effect that causes the document part to be newly inserted to be accompanied by changes such as rotation and movement. `` Natural effects '' that produce natural phenomena such as rain or snow on the image or shaking caused by an earthquake, zooming and panning to enlarge a part of the page image "Special effect effect" that gives special effects such as displaying ripples or spirals, and effects such as rotation and movement of part image parts such as characters displayed on the page screen. There are four types of “part effects”.
For the above-mentioned animation production, select one of “text production”, “natural production”, “special effect production”, and “part production” in “Type” displayed on the animation production setting screen, which will be described later. This is done by selecting the type as “style”, selecting the degree of change, the method of position, etc. as “pattern”, and specifying an arbitrary position on the screen as a reference point.

As shown in FIGS. 3 to 8, the “text effect” is used, for example, when a word uttered by a character or the like displayed on a page image is inserted as a sentence. That is, in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200, the effect setting area 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl (in order to set the girl to speak a word), and “text” is selected by the type selection unit 260. When is selected, the animation effect setting screen 220 of FIG. 3 is displayed. The center of the effect setting area 211 is set as the effect origin (effect area center point) O.
As shown in FIGS. 3 to 8, the animation effect setting screen 220 displays a text window 261 for writing a text document on the right side and a font window 262 for displaying a font when the text document is reproduced.
In the text window 261, a text document to be displayed on the page image 201 input from an input means such as a keyboard is displayed. When the text window 261 is clicked with a mouse, the text document can be input. In the font window 262, a font when a text document is reproduced is displayed. When the font window 262 is clicked, a font setting window (not shown) is opened so that the font can be set.

  In addition to the type selection unit 260, a style selection unit 270 and a pattern selection unit 280 are displayed on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 3 so that various styles and patterns can be selected. Further, the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 can select “random” in which a registered style or pattern is randomly selected to produce an effect.

  In the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 4, “zoom” in which the text document is zoomed from small to large, “blink” in which the text document blinks, and the text document is typed with a typewriter. "Typewriter" that is displayed one character at a time, "Vibration" that is displayed while the text document is vibrating, "Bubble" that is displayed while the text document is moving, and the text document is rotated It is registered so that an effect such as “spin” to be displayed can be selected.

  The pattern selection unit 280 can be selected in accordance with the style selected by the style selection unit 270. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the “zoom” selected by the style selection unit 270 , "Original" where the text document is displayed in standard size, "Reduced" where the text document is reduced, "Enlarged" where the text document is enlarged, "Text" is "Original" It is registered so that effects relating to the size and change of the text document can be selected, such as “original → enlarge → original”, which is displayed as “enlarged” from the state and further changed to the “original” state. When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “typewriter”, the pattern selection unit 280 can select “center alignment”, “left alignment”, and “right alignment” as shown in FIG. It has become.

For the “speech balloon” selected by the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 7, the text document moves “slowly” while the text document moves slowly, “medium”, which moves at an average speed, and the text. “Fast” that allows the document to move faster can be selected.
For the “spin” selected by the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 8, “one rotation to the left”, “two rotations to the left”, “reduction while making one rotation to the left”, “one to the right” The spin rotation direction, the number of rotations, and the enlargement / reduction can be selected, such as “magnify while rotating”.

  On the animation effect setting screen 220, after the selection by the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280, the effect reference point P is set at an arbitrary position of the page image. The setting of the effect reference point P is performed by, for example, a click operation with a mouse. The position of the production reference point P is valid at the final click position by the mouse, and can be changed by performing a click operation. In addition, the production reference point P is a reference in the case where the production effect is given, but the meaning thereof varies depending on each selected style.

  In the example of FIG. 3, since the text selection is selected by the type selection unit 260, and the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 select random, the characters input as the text document with reference to the production reference point are as follows. A production effect according to a randomly selected style and pattern is given.

  In the example of FIG. 4, the selected style is “typewriter” and the production reference point P is set slightly above the face of the white bear, but the production reference point P is set with a designated pattern (designated at random). character of the input "Hello" is displayed as a text document as struck with a typewriter in the center.

  In the example of FIG. 6, the selected style is “typewriter”, and the production reference point P is set at the upper end of the left page. The characters “Shirokuma-san Let's Play” entered as a text document as if hitting are displayed on the right side of the production reference point P.

  In the example of FIG. 5, the selected style is “zoom” and the production reference point P is set at the left page end. However, the original pattern centering on the production reference point P in the specified pattern (original → enlargement → original). character of expanding from the size of the input as a text document so as to return to its original size "Hello" is displayed zoom.

  In the example of FIG. 7, the selected style is “speech” and the production reference point P is set at the center position of the left and right pages, but the text is directed to the production reference point P at the speed of the specified pattern (medium). The text “Shirokuma-san Let's Play” is displayed in a balloon.

  In the example of FIG. 8, the selected style is “spin”, and the production reference point P is set to the left position of the girl's face in the production setting area 211. ), The text document “Shirokuma-san Asobi Let's Play” is rotated and displayed around the production reference point.

  In the case of each “style” of “text effects” shown in FIGS. 3 to 8 described above, the position of the effect area and the effect origin (effect area center point) O are not affected by changes such as movement of the text document. A production effect is given based only on the reference point P. Therefore, in each of the above examples, the effect setting area 211 surrounding the girl is set, but the position of the effect area may be any position in the page image.

  On the other hand, a “text effect” style that changes according to the distance between the effect origin (effect area center point) O and the effect reference point P may be provided. For example, if the production is such that the text document reciprocates between the production origin (production area center point) O and the production reference point P, the component image 210 is displayed in the page image 201 shown in FIGS. By setting the surrounding effect setting area 211, it is possible to provide an effect such that a girl (part image 210) speaks or is called.

Next, a description will be given of a case of “natural production” that produces a natural phenomenon that causes rain or snow to fall on a page image or causes a shake due to an earthquake as an animation production.
As shown in FIGS. 9 to 13, the “natural effect” is used when, for example, it is desired to express a natural phenomenon such as an earthquake that occurs on the background screen on which the page image 201 is displayed. That is, in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200, for example, when the effect setting region 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl and “Nature” is selected by the type selection unit 260, the animation effect setting screen of FIG. 220 is displayed. The center of the effect setting area 211 is set as the effect origin (effect area center point) O.
As shown in FIGS. 9 to 13, an option area is displayed on the right side of the animation effect setting screen 220. Depending on the type selected by the type selection unit 260 and the style selection unit 270, the color setting window 271 ( FIG. 11) is displayed.

  In addition to the type selection unit 260, a style selection unit 270 and a pattern selection unit 280 are displayed on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 9, and various styles and patterns can be selected. Further, the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 can select “random” in which a registered style or pattern is randomly selected to produce an effect.

  In the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 10, in order to express various natural phenomena in the page image 201, “rain” that produces rain, “snow” that produces snow, and fog are applied. `` Fog '' that produces a state like this, `` Wind '' that produces a windy state, `` Lightning '' that produces a lightning shining state, `` Darkness '' that produces a dark state, Productions such as “Earthquake” to produce, “Flame” to produce a fired state, and “Brightness” to produce a shining state can be selected.

  The pattern selection unit 280 can be selected in accordance with the style selected by the style selection unit 270. For example, as shown in FIG. 11, for the “brightness” selected by the style selection unit 270, , When adding brightness to the page screen, "brightness" occurs such as "overall (only once)", "overall (slow repetition)", "reference point (only once)", "reference point (fast repetition)" It is registered so that it is possible to select an effect related to the place and number of times that the user wants to make it happen. In the option area, a color selection window 271 for selecting a brilliant color is displayed so that a desired color can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “flame”, as shown in FIG. 12, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “always widened (whole)” “slowly spread (whole)” “always” It is possible to select a place where the “flame” occurs and a spread state such as “spread state (effect area)”.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “earthquake”, as shown in FIG. 13, the pattern selection unit 280 displays the “slow”, “medium”, and “fast” “earthquake” shaking conditions. It can be selected.

  In the case of “natural effect” as well as “text effect” described above, after the selection by the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 on the animation effect setting screen 220, the page image 201 or its outside (page image) The production reference point P is set at an arbitrary position on the screen). The effect reference point P is set by a click operation with the mouse as in the “text effect”, and the final click position becomes valid as the effect reference point P.

  In the example of FIG. 9, since “natural effect” is selected by the type selection unit 260 and the style and pattern are random, only the effect reference point P, or the effect reference point P and the effect origin (effect area center point) O A presentation effect according to the style and pattern selected at random is given.

  In the example of FIG. 10, the selected style is “earthquake”, the production reference point P is set at the upper left corner of the right page, and the designated pattern (FIG. 13) is determined by the distance and inclination from the production origin (production area center point) O. The vibration according to the inclination direction and the distance is given as a production effect.

  In the example of FIG. 11, the selected style is “brightness” and the production reference point P is set slightly above the face of the white bear, but the production reference point P is centered in the designated pattern (whole (fast repetition)). A production effect that is generated by repeated repetition of brightness within a certain range is provided.

  In the example of FIG. 12, the selected style is “flame”, and the production reference point P is set on the seal above the white bear, but the production reference point in the designated pattern (always spread (production area)). A production effect in which a flame rises in an area having a size corresponding to the production area centering on P is given.

  In the example of FIG. 13, the selected style is “earthquake”, the production reference point P is set to the lower outside of the right page, and the designated pattern (slow is determined by the distance and inclination from the production origin (production area center point) O. ), Vibration according to the tilt direction and distance is given as an effect. The amount of movement (swing) is determined by the distance described above, and the direction of movement (swing) is determined by the inclination. In this example, an effect is provided in which shaking occurs substantially in the vertical direction.

Next, a description will be given of a case of a “special effect effect” that gives a special effect such as zooming to enlarge a part of a page image or displaying the entire image in a ripple pattern as an animation effect.
As shown in FIGS. 14 to 23, the “special effect effect” is used, for example, when it is desired to give a special image change to the background screen of the page image. That is, in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200, for example, when the effect setting region 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl and “special effect” is selected by the type selection unit 260, the animation effect setting shown in FIG. A screen 220 is displayed. The center of the effect setting area 211 is set as the effect origin (the center point of the effect area).
As shown in FIGS. 14 to 23, an option area is displayed on the right side of the animation effect setting screen 220. Depending on the type selected by the type selection unit 260 and the style selection unit 270, a setting window (not shown) is displayed in this part. Is displayed.

  In addition to the type selection unit 260, a style selection unit 270 and a pattern selection unit 280 are displayed on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 14 so that various styles and patterns can be selected. Further, the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 can select “random” in which a registered style or pattern is randomly selected to produce an effect.

  In the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 15, in order to express image changes due to various special effects in the page image 201, “zoom” for performing screen enlargement processing, “spin” for performing rotation processing, and page image “Spotlight” that produces a spotlight only for a portion, “Perspective” that produces a perspective on the page screen, “Ripples” that produces an effect that changes the page screen to ripples, and a wavy wave Registered so that you can select “hula dance” that produces an effect that changes the style of the page, “swirl” that produces an effect that changes the page image into a spiral, and “scroll” that produces an effect that scrolls the page screen. Has been.

  The pattern selection unit 280 can be selected in accordance with the style selected by the style selection unit 270. For example, as shown in FIG. 16, the “zoom” selected by the style selection unit 270 When the enlargement process is performed on the page image 201, “original → enlargement (small)”, “enlargement (small) → original” “original → enlargement (small) → original” “original → enlargement (large)” “original → enlargement” “Large 2 times in succession” is registered so that an effect related to the type, number of times, and degree of “zoom” can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spin”, as shown in FIG. 17, the pattern selection unit 280 performs “rotate 20 degrees left” and “rotate 20 degrees right to 20 degrees left”. The rotation direction and angle of “spin”, such as “rotate 360 degrees to the left” and “continuous two rotations to the right”, can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spotlight”, as shown in FIG. 18, the pattern selection unit 280 “spots become smaller and disappears” “spreads the whole spot”. The operation status and moving direction of “spotlight” such as “move spot from upper right” can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “perspective”, as shown in FIG. 19, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “effect (small)” “effect (medium)” “effect (large)”. The degree of perspective can be selected. When “Effect (Large)” is selected, a great sense of perspective is obtained.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “ripple”, the pattern selection unit 280 can select the degree of deformation of the image by the ripple processing from “maximum to minimum” as shown in FIG. It has become. When “maximum” is selected, the degree of deformation (disintegration) of the image increases.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “hula dance”, as shown in FIG. 21, the pattern selection unit 280 selects “horizontal winding (very slow)” to “vertical winding (very fast)”. "Wave direction and wavy size can be selected."

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spiral”, as shown in FIG. 22, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “original → small spiral (left-handed)” “original → small spiral (left-handed)” → The change state of the spiral, the direction and the size of the spiral, such as “original” and “large spiral → original (right-handed)”, can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “scroll”, as shown in FIG. 23, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “left → right (perspective)” “right → left (perspective)” “right”. → Left (Parallel) "and other types of scrolling can be selected.

In the case of “special effect” as well as “text effect” and “natural effect”, after the selection by the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 on the animation effect setting screen 220, the page image or its outside The production reference point P is set at an arbitrary position (inside the screen outside the page image). The effect reference point P is set by a click operation with the mouse as in the “text effect”, and the final click position becomes valid as the effect reference point P.
Further, as described above, the center point of the effect setting area becomes the effect origin O, and the effect area setting means 12 detects the size of the effect setting area (such as the effect area area and vertical and horizontal lengths) and sets the effect effect. In the means 15, each effect having a different amount of change such as a moving amount or a rotation amount is given using only the effect reference point P or the effect reference point P, the effect origin O, and a plurality of effect area sizes as parameters. The

  In the example of FIG. 14, since the “special effect effect” is selected by the type selection unit 260 and the style and pattern are random, only the effect reference point P or the effect reference point P and the effect origin (the center point of the effect region) ) A presentation effect corresponding to the style and pattern randomly selected according to the positional relationship with O is given.

  In the example of FIG. 15, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “zoom” and the production reference point is set at the lower right position of the left page, the production reference point is designated with a designated pattern (designated at random). An effect of enlarging or reducing the effect area around P is given.

  In the example of FIG. 16, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “zoom” and the pattern is “original → enlarge (large)”, the effect area is enlarged around the effect reference point P with this designated pattern. A production effect is given.

  In the example of FIG. 17, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spin” and the pattern is “rotate 360 degrees to the left”, the effect of rotating around the effect reference point P with this specified pattern is achieved. Is granted. In the case of this example, the position of the production area is not related to the production effect.

  In the example of FIG. 18, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spotlight” and the pattern is “move spot from upper right”, the spot moves from the upper right by this designated pattern, and the production reference point P A production effect such that a spotlight hits around is added. In the case of this example, the size of the spotlight changes according to the size of the area of the effect setting area 211.

  In the example of FIG. 19, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “perspective” and the pattern is “effect (medium)”, panning is performed using the designated pattern from the production reference point P to the production area. A moving effect is provided.

  In the example of FIG. 20, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “ripple” and the pattern is “slightly large”, an effect of generating a wave around the effect reference point P is given with this designated pattern. The In the case of this example, the position of the production area is not related to the production effect.

  In the example of FIG. 21, the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “hula dance”, the pattern is “vertically winding (slow)”, and the production reference point P is located outside the page image. The designated pattern undulates, but the effect of changing the size according to the distance between the effect reference point P and the effect origin O is given. In this example, the winding speed changes according to the size of the effect area.

  In the example of FIG. 21, since the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “spiral” and the pattern is “original → small spiral → original (right-handed)”, the production reference point P is centered on this designated pattern. The effect of creating a swirl is added. In the case of this example, the position of the production area is not related to the production effect.

  In the example of FIG. 22, the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “scroll”, and the pattern is “from right to left (far / near)”. A display effect is provided. In this example, the start position changes according to the position of the production reference point P. In addition, the position of the production area is not related to the production effect.

Next, a description will be given of the case of “component effect” in which a part image portion such as a character displayed on the page screen is provided with an effect accompanied by a change such as rotation / movement as an animation effect.
In the case of “part effect”, unlike the “text effect”, “natural effect”, and “special effect effect” already described, the character (component image) is separated from the background image of the page image, and the separated component image is changed. Therefore, image processing for separating the component image 210 from the page image 201 is necessary.
In this process, first, the component image extraction unit 13 automatically deletes or separates the painted area by painting the background image with the mask color in the rendering area specified by the rendering area setting unit 12 to extract the component image. It is done by memorizing.

That is, for example, when the effect setting area 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200, the animation effect setting screen 220 of FIG. 24 is displayed. On the animation effect setting screen 220, a part image generation window 221 and a background image generation window 222 are displayed on the right side, and buttons for “automatic generation”, “edit”, and “deletion” are set below each window.
In this state, when the “automatic generation” button in the component image generation window 221 is clicked, the girl pattern image 210 is separated from the background in the effect setting area 211, so that a mask pattern for masking the background is automatically set. The created component image 210 is extracted.

  In this example, the effect setting area 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl, but a partial area inside the part image is set as an area corresponding to the part image as the effect setting area, and the area is based on that area. Then, a process of automatically extracting a component image may be performed.

  Extraction of the part image 210 by automatic creation of the mask pattern is performed by painting the background area of the part image 210 in the effect setting area 211 with a mask color in the manner of a paint tool. In this case, the effect setting area 211 is an image as shown in FIG. 4, but for the sake of simplicity, as shown in FIG. 5, the horizontal line part in the effect setting area 211 is H, the girl part is X, A detailed procedure for automatically creating a mask pattern will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 27, where Y is the upper background portion partitioned by H and Z is the lower background portion partitioned by H.

When “automatic generation” is selected in the component image generation window 221 of FIG. 24, the image in the effect setting area 211 of the page image 201 is copied (step 301).
Next, as an initialization process, the transmission flags of all cells are turned OFF, and the transmission start point array and the next transmission start point array are left empty. Further, the outer peripheral specific point of the effect setting area 211 (for example, the upper left corner of the effect setting area 211 of FIG. 26) is set as the scanning origin, and the scanning origin is set as the scanning start point (step 302).
The cell color C (blue which is the color of the sea) at the scanning start point is stored, and the similar color run length is set to “1” (step 303).
It moves from the scanning start point clockwise to the next adjacent outer peripheral scanning point (step 304), and determines whether the scanning point is the scanning origin (step 305). If it is not the scanning origin, the cell at the scanning point is color C It is determined whether the colors are similar (step 306).
If the cell at the scanning point is a similar color of color C, the similar color run length is incremented by “1” (step 307), and the process returns to step 304 to move to the next adjacent outer peripheral scanning point.
When the cell at the scanning point is not the similar color C and the transmission flag is not ON (step 308), it is determined whether the similar color run length is longer than a predetermined length (filling condition threshold) (step 309). If it is long, a scan start point filling process is performed (step 310).
When the scan start point filling process is performed, the scan point is set as the scan start point (step 311), and a new scan is started (step 303).

The processing up to this point will be described with reference to FIG. 5. The cell 1 which is the scanning origin in FIG. The similar color run length is the initial value “1”. The predetermined length is set in advance as a fixed value according to the size of the effect area. When creating a mask pattern, the transmission start point array and the next transmission start point array for managing the fill position are made empty.
The scanning point is moved clockwise in the outer periphery, and it is determined whether or not each cell is a color similar to color C. Since the cells 2 to 12 are similar colors of the color C (blue), the similar color run length = 12 is added, the cell 13 is not a similar color of the color C, and the transmission flag is OFF. As a result, similar color run length (12)> predetermined length (8) is established, and cell 1 at the scan start point is added to the transmission start point array to be filled (FIG. 26A). Here, the transparency flag of the cell 1 is turned ON (in FIG. 26A, “region surrounded by a thick line frame”).

For all the cells in the transmission start point array, it is determined whether the upper, lower, left and right cells are similar color C. Since the cells 2 and 28 are similar to the color C and the transmission flag is OFF, these are added to the next transmission start point array and the transmission flag is turned ON (FIG. 26B).
When processing for all the transmission start point arrays is completed, the next transmission start point array is copied to the transmission start point array, and the next transmission start point array is emptied.

  For cells 2 and 28 in the new transmission start point array, it is determined whether the upper, lower, left, and right cells are similar color C. Cells 3, 27, and 29 that are similar to the color C and have the transmission flag OFF are added to the next transmission start point array. By such processing, cells of a similar color of color C are filled with transparency ON (FIG. 26 (c)).

  When there is no new transmission start point array, the operation of filling the cell with the transmission ON is completed (FIG. 26D). The transmission start point array and the next transmission start point array are left empty.

  Here, the cell 13 moves to the next scanning start point. The scanning start point color D (black which is the color of the line drawn in the horizontal direction) is stored. The similar color run length is the initial value “1”. Since the scanning point is moved in the clockwise direction and the cell 14 is not a similar color of the color D and the transmission flag is OFF, the similar color run length (1) <predetermined length (8) is satisfied, and the painting process is not performed.

Therefore, the scanning start point moves to the cell 14. The color E (white color that is the ice color) of the scanning start point is stored. The similar color run length is 1 as an initial value. The scanning point is moved clockwise in the outer periphery, and since the cells 15 to 23 are similar colors of the color E, the similar color run length = 10 is added.
The cell 24 is not similar to the color E, and the transmission flag is OFF. As a result, the similar color run length (10)> predetermined length (8) is established, the cell 14 at the scanning start point is added to the transmission start point array to be filled, and the transmission flag of the cell 14 is turned ON.
It is determined whether the upper, lower, left and right cells of the cell 14 are similar colors E, and the filled area is expanded. The painting process ends when there is no new transmission start point array (FIG. 26 (e)). The transmission start point array and the next transmission start point array are left empty.

Here, the cell 24 moves to the next scanning start point. The scanning start point color D (black which is the color of the line drawn in the horizontal direction) is stored. The similar color run length is 1 as an initial value. The scanning point is moved clockwise in the outer periphery. Since the cells 25 to 28 are not similar to the color D and the transmission flag is ON, the scanning point sequentially moves and the scanning point moves to the cell 1. Since the cell 1 at the scanning point is the scanning origin, this means that the circumference has been made a full circle.
That is, when the scanning point is the scanning origin (step 305), it is determined whether the similar color run length is longer than a predetermined length (step 312). Here, the similar color run length (1) <predetermined length (8) is satisfied, and the filling process is not performed.

Conversely, when the scanning point is the scanning origin (step 305), it is determined whether the similar color run length is longer than the predetermined length (step 312). If the scanning point is longer, the scanning start point filling process is performed (step 313). ).
Finally, a transmission process (background mask process) is performed by performing a transmission process on the point where the transmission flag is ON (step 314) (FIG. 26 (f)).
When the background mask process is completed, the part image generated window 221 on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 28 displays the part image extracted by performing the transparent process with the background portion masked.

  According to the above procedure, when the scanning start point makes a round around the effect setting area 211 and the similar color run length from the scanning start point exceeds a predetermined length, the paint spreads from the scanning start point to the inside of the area. That is, in FIG. 25, if the process A where the scanning start point is the transmission start point and the point adjacent to the transmission start point is a transmission flag OFF and a color similar to the stored color, it is registered as a new transmission start point. A part B can be extracted by performing processing B for setting the transmission flag of that point to ON and automatically generating a mask pattern for the background when there is no new transmission start point.

There are various methods for automatically extracting a component image other than the method of scanning the entire periphery of the effect area.
For example, as a method for automatically extracting a component image, (1) contour extraction processing (generally using a differential operation method such as Sobel, Prewitt, etc.) with respect to the image inside the effect area, the color tone of the image changes abruptly. (2) A region inside a part image is set as an effect region, and the region is grown with a similar color based on the color in the region. A method of extracting a component image, (3) a method of setting a region including a contour of a component image as an effect region, and extracting a component image by a combination process of contour extraction within the region and similar color growth inside and outside the region, etc. It may be adopted.

When the component image is automatically generated for the effect setting area 211 of FIG. 25, it appears horizontally below the effect setting area 211 as shown in the component image generation window 221 of the animation effect setting screen 220 of FIG. The line cannot be determined as the background, and remains without being filled by the mask pattern.
In order to deal with such a part that cannot be automatically generated, the part image extraction unit 13 includes a part image extraction auxiliary unit.
The component image extraction assisting unit removes or separates the painted area by painting the background image or the component image with the mask color in the effect setting area 211 and extracts the component image 210 to paint the paint tool (for example, a drawing pen or the like). The part image 210 is manually determined using a bucket.
Then, the part image extraction assisting means uses a mask mode in which the part drawn with the paint tool is filled with the mask color so that it becomes the background area, and a part with the mask color so that the part drawn with the paint tool becomes the part image Is provided with a mode switching means for switching between the mask cancellation mode for returning to the original image and the mask mode and the mask cancellation mode.

Specifically, after the part image is automatically generated on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 28, when the edit button under the part image generation window 221 is clicked, the animation image edit screen (part edit) 230 in FIG. 29 is displayed. Is done. By selecting the brush window 231 on the animation image editing screen 230 of FIG. 29, the brush portion 232 corresponding to the draw pen is displayed in the effect setting area 211, and by selecting the transparent window 233, the mask mode can be switched to, for example, For example, dragging with a pointing device such as a mouse can be erased by tracing an unnecessary line in the effect setting area 211 with the brush unit 232 (filling with a mask color).
At this time, if the line is accidentally erased too much, the “color restoration” window 234 is selected to switch to the mask cancellation mode described above, and the brush portion 232 is moved within the effect setting area 211 with, for example, a mouse. By dragging, the erased image portion (image filled with the mask color) can be restored. Note that the editing method is not limited to the above-described example, and a method performed by general image editing software or the like can be included.
The part image from which unnecessary lines are removed by the part image extraction assisting means is displayed in the part image generation window 221 of the animation effect setting screen 220 as shown in FIG.

  In the above example, when extracting the part image, the part image extracting unit 13 that automatically generates the part image and the part image extracting auxiliary unit only manually extract the part image that cannot be automatically generated. A configuration may be used in which a component image is extracted by a component image extraction unit that performs component image extraction alone.

The background image creating means 14 creates a background image by replacing an area on the background image corresponding to the extracted component image with a color corresponding to the surrounding background color.
That is, when the “automatic generation” button in the background image generation window 222 on the animation effect setting screen 220 in FIG. 30 is clicked, a background image from which the girl part image 210 is removed is automatically created in the effect setting area 211. Displayed on the background image generation window 222.
The method of automatically generating the background image is to use the surrounding background color (sky blue, ice white, sky and ice border black) for the background image area from which the extracted girl part image has been removed. The background image is generated by substituting for the above. A detailed procedure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 31 and the animation effect setting screen 220 of FIG.

When “automatic generation” is selected in the background image generation window 222 of the animation effect setting screen 220, the image in the effect setting area 211 of the page image 201 is copied (step 401).
Scanning starts at the upper left of the effect setting area 211 (step 402), and all points are scanned up to the lower right end point. Then, it is determined whether or not the processing point is a transmission point of the component image classified at the time of component image extraction (step 403).
If it is not a transmission point, this part is a part image part, so the processing point is changed to the background color (step 404). For example, the color to be changed is the background color closest to the processing point.
If it is a transmission point, this part is a part of the mask pattern (that is, the background image) at the time of component image extraction, and therefore there is no need to change processing, so the process moves to the next processing point (step 405).
Then, it is determined whether or not the processing for all the processing points has been completed (step 406), and if it has been completed, the background image creation is terminated.

  In the above example, when the background image is automatically created, a process of “replace all pixels corresponding to the extracted component image with the color of the pixel on the background image that is the shortest to the pixel” is performed. For example, “When a background image is automatically created, color continuity or regularity is detected along the periphery of the effect area set by the effect area setting means, and the detected color is continued to grow into the background. The background image may be created by performing a process such as “Self”.

If the background is simple, the background image can be completely automatically generated by the above procedure, but if the background is complex, it is manually corrected based on the background image automatically generated to some extent from the image features. You can do it.
That is, when the background image is automatically generated for the effect setting area 211 of FIG. 30, the background of the central portion 250 of the girl (part image) is accurately created as shown in the background image generation window 222. I can't. Since this part is close to the lower side, it is reproduced in the same color as the lower color (white, which is the color of ice).
In order to deal with such a portion that cannot be automatically generated, the background image creation means 14 is provided with a background image creation assistance means.

The background image creation assisting means can manually edit the line drawing and color coloring of the generated background image. Note that the editing method is not limited to the embodiment, and a method performed by general image editing software or the like can be included.
Specifically, when the background image is automatically generated on the animation effect setting screen 220 and then the edit button under the background image generation window 222 is clicked, the animation image editing screen (background editing) 230 shown in FIG. 32 is displayed. By selecting the brush window 231 on the animation image editing screen 230 of FIG. 32, the brush portion 232 corresponding to the paint tool is displayed in the effect setting area 211, and the coloring window 235 (desired color has been selected) is selected. The selected color can be colored by tracing the inside of the effect setting area 211 with the brush unit 232. A horizontal line can be added by changing the thickness of the brush part 232 and setting the selection color of the coloring window 235 to black.
The background image to which lines and colors are added by the background image creation assisting means is displayed on the background image generation window 222 of the animation effect setting screen 220 as shown in FIG.
In addition, when the background image is created, the background image creation means 14 for automatically generating the background image and the background image creation auxiliary means only for the part that cannot be automatically created are manually created for the background image. The background image creating means for creating the image may be used alone to create the background image.

The effect effect setting means 15 selects the effect type corresponding to the effect area as the effect in the effect setting mode, and stores this. In addition, the attribute of the production to be set in the production area is set to one of the production of “story production” that produces in line with the story, “secret production” that produces an unexpected production, or both productions. It has become.
As the effect, in addition to the effect (animation effect) accompanied by the image change such as the above-described enlargement / deformation processing of the image, the effect by sound source data such as reading aloud (voice), sound effect (sound), BGM or the like can be considered.
Selection of the effect for the effect area is performed for each effect area, but each effect effect in the page image is determined by reproduction time data corresponding to the coordinate data of each effect area stored in the effect area setting means 12. The playback order is assigned. In addition, as described above, each effect can be selected with a keyword corresponding to the content of the effect type of the style selection unit 270, so that the necessary effect can be easily selected.

  The effect reproduction means 16 reproduces the effect at the timing corresponding to the reproduction time data when each page image on which the effect setting has been performed is displayed in the effect setting mode and the effect image reproduction mode. In other words, when there are a plurality of effect areas in the page image, the reproduction is performed based on the reproduction time data distributed based on the coordinate data of the effect areas stored in the effect area setting means 12 or edited thereafter. Is called.

When reproducing a production setting that extracts a part image from a page image and moves the part image to an arbitrary position on the page image away from the original position, the position where the part image originally existed is drawn as a background image. For new drawing in which the component image moves, an image synthesis process with a new background is performed using the background mask pattern.
As a result, it is possible to move only the part image within the page image (for example, to move only the balloon softly in the place, to make a lot of snow crystals fall on the screen in the snow scene, or to make a specific face of the group photo Can be zoomed in), and the degree of freedom of effects that can be set can be expanded.

As shown in FIGS. 33 to 42, the “component effect” is used, for example, when a character (component image) is separated from the background screen of the page image to change the image. That is, in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200, for example, when the effect setting area 211 is set so as to surround the part image 210 of the girl and “part effect” is selected by the type selection unit 260, the animation effect setting shown in FIG. A screen 220 is displayed. The center of the effect setting area 211 is set as the effect origin (center point of the effect area) O.
In the animation effect setting screen 220, as shown in FIGS. 39 to 42, the part image and the background image extracted and created by the above-described procedure are displayed on the right side in the part image creation window 221 and the background image creation window 222, respectively.

  In addition to the type selection section, a style selection section 270 and a pattern selection section 280 are displayed on the animation effect setting screen 220 of FIG. 33 so that various styles and patterns can be selected. Further, the style selection unit 270 and the pattern selection unit 280 can select “random” in which a registered style or pattern is randomly selected to produce an effect.

  In the style selection unit 270, as shown in FIG. 34, in order to give various changes to the component image, “zoom” that is an effect of enlarging the component image, “spin” that is an effect of simply rotating the component image, "Rotation", which is an effect in which the image is rotated around the production reference point, "Loop", which is an effect in which the part image is looped in the depth direction around the production reference point, and an effect in which the component image fluctuates around the production reference point “Swing”, “Jump”, an effect that the part image jumps in the direction of the production reference point, “Balloon”, an effect that inflates the part image, “Wheel”, an effect that the part image rolls, and the part image move Each effect that performs operations such as “movement”, which is an effect to be performed, and “reciprocation”, which is an effect in which the part image reciprocates, is registered.

  The pattern selection unit 280 can be selected in accordance with the style selected by the style selection unit 270. For example, as shown in FIG. 35, the “rotation” selected by the style selection unit 270 When rotating a part image, it is possible to select effects relating to the rotation direction and speed when performing “rotation”, such as “clockwise (slow)”, “clockwise (fast)”, “counterclockwise (fast)”, etc. So that it is registered.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “loop”, as shown in FIG. 36, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “clockwise (slow)”, “clockwise (fast)”, “counterclockwise”. It is registered so that an effect relating to the rotation direction and speed when performing “loop” such as “turn (fast)” can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “swing”, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “small amplitude (slow)”, “small amplitude (middle)”, “large amplitude” as shown in FIG. (Slowly) "or the like, an effect relating to the swing width and speed when the part image swings can be selected.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “jump”, as shown in FIG. 38, the pattern selection unit 280 shows a case where “slow”, “medium”, and “fast” part images are jumped. You can select a performance related to speed.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “balloon”, as shown in FIG. 39, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “original → expansion (once)” “original → expansion → original (once) ) "" Continuous source-> Expansion-> Original (middle) ", etc. In the effect that the part image is inflated like a balloon, it is possible to select whether the expansion is once or continuous, or an effect on the speed of expansion Yes.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “wheel”, as shown in FIG. 40, the pattern selection unit 280 “rolls left (slow rotation)” “rolls left (rotation is middle). Etc.) "Rolling to the right (rotation is fast)", and the like, it is possible to select effects related to the direction and speed of rotation.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “move”, as shown in FIG. 41, the pattern selection unit 280 performs “instantaneous movement to the reference point”, “slide toward the reference point”, “to the reference point”. It is possible to select an effect related to the movement with respect to the reference point, such as “return immediately after sliding” or “slide from the reference point”.

  When the style selected by the style selection unit 270 is “reciprocating”, as shown in FIG. 42, the pattern selection unit 280 displays “slow”, “fast”, “slow (return backward)”, “fast (return forward) ) ", Etc., so that it is possible to select an effect relating to the speed of movement and whether to reverse in the round trip.

  In the case of “part effect”, as in the case of “text effect”, “natural effect”, and “special effect effect”, after the selection in the style selection part and the pattern selection part on the animation effect setting screen 220, the page image or its An effect reference point P is set at an arbitrary position outside (on the screen outside the page image). The effect reference point P is set by a click operation with the mouse as in the other cases, and the final click position becomes effective as the effect reference point P.

  In the example of FIG. 33, since “part effect” is selected by the type selection unit 260 and the style and pattern are random, only the effect reference point P or the effect reference point P and the effect origin (the center point of the effect area) An effect is provided according to the style and pattern selected at random according to the positional relationship with O.

  In the example of FIG. 34, the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “part effect”, the selected style is “swing”, and the effect reference point P is set near the forefoot of the white bear. A swing (swing) corresponding to a designated pattern (randomly designated from a plurality of patterns shown in FIG. 39) is given as a production effect. In this example, the position of the effect setting area is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 35, the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “Rotation”, and the production reference point P is set on the left line of the production setting area 211, but with a designated pattern (clockwise (slow)). An effect is provided in which the component image 210 rotates around the effect reference point P. In this example, the position of the effect setting area is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 36, the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “loop”, and the production reference point P is set at the rear position of the white bear. However, the part image 210 has a specified pattern (clockwise (slow)). Produces an effect of looping around the production reference point P.

  In the example of FIG. 37, since the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “Swing” and the production reference point P is set at the feet of the girl (part image 210), the part image is centered on the production reference point P. A swing (swing) 210 according to the designated pattern (large amplitude (slow)) is given as an effect. In this example, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 38, the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “jump”, and the production reference point P is set above the production setting area 211, so that the part image 210 is a designated pattern (middle). Is given as an effect of jumping to the effect reference point P. In this example, depending on the position of the production reference point P, the jumping height and the moving position change. Further, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 39, the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “balloon”, and the production reference point P is set at the upper left position outside the production setting area 211. ) Gives an effect of expanding like a balloon. In this example, the bulge size changes according to the distance between the production reference point P and the production origin O. Further, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 40, since the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “wheel” and the production reference point P is set at the inner left position of the production setting area 211, the part image 210 is displayed in the designated pattern (to the left). By rolling (middle of rotation), the effect of rolling like a wheel around the production reference point P is given. In this example, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 41, since the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “move” and the production reference point P is set to the white bear torso, the part image 210 has a designated pattern (motion blur movement to the reference point). Thus, the effect of moving from the effect origin O to the effect reference point P is given. In this example, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the example of FIG. 42, since the style selected by the style selection unit 260 is “reciprocating” and the production reference point P is set at the left position that has passed the white bear, the part image 210 is displayed in a designated pattern (slow (reverse inversion). )), The effect of moving from the production origin O to the production reference point P and the reverse movement from the production reference point P to the production origin O on the return path is given. In this example, the position of the effect setting area 211 is not related to the effect.

  In the above-described examples, the effect reference point is set by selecting the style selection part and the pattern selection part on the animation effect setting screen 220 and then setting the position of the effect reference point P by clicking the mouse. The locus of mouse movement during preview reproduction for confirming the effect on the effect setting screen 220 may be stored, and the effect reference point P may be made variable according to the locus.

  In the production effect in each example described above, the production effect can be given based on the positional relationship between the production point by setting the production reference point and the center point (production origin) of the production area. For example, by increasing the distance of the production reference point with respect to the production origin, rotation and movement with respect to the production reference point become large. Therefore, when performing effects such as rotation and movement of page images and component images displayed on page images, the setting of the position of the effect reference point is referred to for effects that vary greatly, such as a large turning radius or moving distance. It can be easily applied by a simple operation.

  In the effect of selecting “part effect” by the type selection unit 260, for example, the position where the girl part image 210 originally existed in the page image 201 of the effect setting screen 200 in FIG. Even when the effect of moving to a completely different place from 210a is set, the background screen under the part image is completely restored, so that it is possible to produce an effect that does not feel strange.

The above-mentioned “text effect”, “natural effect”, and “special effect effect” “part effect” can be set in combination in the page image.
For example, while jumping or moving multiple characters in a page image with “part effects”, spotlight is applied to only certain characters with “special effects effects”, while “natural effects” are applied to the entire scene. You can combine multiple animation effects effectively and freely, such as raining and snowing with “and special effects effect” to make the entire page image flutter.

In addition, in the case of a secret effect (secret effect that causes an unexpected image change in the page image) to be described later, when the effect region in the page image is selected by a pointing device such as a mouse constituting the input device 6, The effect produced by the production effect setting means 15 is reproduced.
In the case of secret reproduction, the position of the moving mouse cursor may be handled as the effect reference point P of the animation effect instead of the set effect reference point. In this case, by moving the mouse during secret reproduction, the position of the effect reference point P changes, and it is possible to enjoy a dynamic effect.

Next, with respect to the overall flow of production and reproduction of the production image using the production image creation device, the creation of an electronic picture book is taken as an example, and the flowcharts of FIGS. 44 and 45 and FIG. 46 (or FIG. 2) are shown. This will be described with reference to the effect image setting page 20 (effect image setting screen 200).
Production of production images on each page of the picture book is divided into “story production” that produces the story along the story of the picture book, and “secret production” that causes unexpected image changes and sound generation in any part of the page image. Specific effects in the “story effect” and “secret effect” include “animation effects” that give movement to the characters in the page image as described above, and “effects that add sound effects to the characters in the page image” The “sound production”, the “BGM production” in which music flows when the page image is displayed, and the “sound production production” that gives the reading voice of the text written in the page image can be performed on each page image. .
The effects in each page image are set as the above-mentioned effects alone or in combination.

When creating an electronic picture book, an effect image creation program is started on the computer, and an image creation mode is selected in the image creation mode, effect setting mode, and effect image playback mode selection in the flowchart of FIG. (Step 101).
Subsequently, a picture book composed of paper is read by the scanner device 5 for each page (step 102). The read image is displayed on the display device 7, and correction processing such as screen rotation, trimming, and tone correction is performed as necessary (step 103), and each page image is stored in the image storage unit 11 as electronic information. Image reading is completed by repeatedly reading each page image (step 104).
Each page image stored in the image storage means 11 is touched by the image reproduction means 14 with the key “→” (when proceeding to the next page) or “←” (when returning to the previous page) on the keyboard of the input device 6. (In the case of the effect image setting screen 200, by clicking each icon of the page development unit 202), it is possible to turn the pages one by one on the display device 7 (displayed in a state of reading a book) and reproduce it. ing.
When existing picture book image data is used, the operation of reading an image by creating an image can be omitted.

Next, the effect setting mode is selected in the mode selection (step 101), and the page image for which the effect image is to be created is displayed on the display device 7 as the effect image setting page 20 (FIG. 46) or the effect image setting screen 200 (FIG. 2). Then, in the effect image setting page 20 (effect image setting screen 200), effect area setting for specifying the effect area for each page image and effect effect setting for giving the effect to the effect area are performed (step 105).
That is, for example, when an effect is set for a component image on a page image, as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 45, a component image is displayed with respect to a component image drawn on a background constituting a part of the page image. The surrounding area is set as an effect area (effect setting area 211 in the effect image setting screen 200 of FIG. 2) (effect area setting step 121).
Next, a background image or a part image in the effect area is painted with a mask color to delete or separate the painted area and extract a part image (part image 210 in the effect image setting screen 200 in FIG. 2) (part image) Extraction step 122).
The extracted component image is stored as electronic information (component image storage step 123).
A background image in the effect area is created by replacing all pixels corresponding to the extracted component image with the color of the pixel on the background image that is shortest to that pixel (background image creation step 124).
The component image is combined with an arbitrary position of the page image to provide an effect (component image effect setting step 125).
The effect setting ends when all the effect settings for each page image are set (step 106).

Next, the effect image reproduction mode is selected in the mode selection (step 101), and the effect image is reproduced on the display device 7 (step 107).
In the effect image playback mode, it is determined whether or not “automatic turning” for automatically turning and sequentially reproducing each page of the picture book is selected (step 108). If “automatic turning” is not selected, The playback ends only with the effect set for the page image, and when “automatic turning” is selected, the effect set for the page image is played back to the last page (step 109). The page is turned and the reproduction is repeated (step 110).
Reproduction of the effect in each page image is performed by reproduction time data distributed based on the coordinate data of the effect area or edited thereafter.
In the case of “automatic turning”, the period from the end of playback of the previous page until the page is turned and the next page is displayed is managed as an interval time that is a preset period.

In the effect image setting page 20, as shown in FIG. 46, the picture book pages (left page 21 and right page 22) are displayed in a spread state, and the effect that is set on the left page 21 and the right page 22 in the “story effect”. Is displayed on the upper part of the picture book page. The operation key window 30 (in the case of the effect image setting screen 200, the operation key window 203) is displayed. The operation key window 30 has a playback button 31 for playing back (preview playback) and confirming the set effect, a stop button 32 for stopping playback, and a picture book page (left page 21 and right page 22 during playback). ), A return button 33 for returning to the beginning of reproduction and a volume button 34 for adjusting the reproduction volume are provided.
Each button of the operation key window 30 is played back by clicking the mouse (input device 6) button (cursor tip displayed by the pointing device) together with the buttons, and the left page 21 and “ The effect set on the right page 22 can be confirmed for each page screen.

  In the effect image setting page 20, “spoken reading effect” 41, “BGM effect” 42, “animation effect” 43, and “sound effect effect” are located below the picture book pages (left page 21 and right page 22). A timeline 40 (timeline of the effect image setting screen 200) having a rectangular portion corresponding to 44 is displayed. A time axis 45 is displayed at the lowest position of the timeline 40.

In addition, a switching window 47 for switching between “story attribute” for setting “story effect” and “secret attribute” for setting “secret effect” is displayed on the left side of the timeline 40. ing. Switching between the “story attribute” and the “secret attribute” is performed by clicking the button of the mouse (input device 6) on the switching window 47, and the mode is switched for each click, but for each effect area in the effect setting mode. Can be set to switch.
At the left end of the time axis 45 of the timeline 40, playback time editing buttons 48a and 48b for increasing / decreasing a set value for editing the page playback time are provided.

Next, with reference to FIG. 46 and FIG. 47, the procedure in the case where the effect effect of “animation effect” (story effect) is given to the component image such as the character drawn on the page image by the effect image creating device described above. The description will be given with reference. The effect image setting page 20 in FIG. 46 corresponds to the effect image setting screen 200 in FIG. 2, and the animation setting screen 80 in FIG. 47 corresponds to the style selection unit 270 and pattern selection unit 280 in FIGS. ing.
In this case, after launching the effect image creation program, the effect setting mode (editing mode) is selected, and “story attribute” is selected in the switching window 47 of the effect image setting page 20.

Area where you want to create an animation effect in the page image by clicking the mouse button (the tip displayed on the pointing device) on the animation window 43a of the timeline 40 displayed on the effect image setting page 20 and clicking By dragging with the mouse button, the area of the arbitrary area is displayed as a rectangle.
For example, a rectangular area surrounding the dog picture 52 is referred to as an “animation effect setting area” 53.

  The “animation effect setting area” 53 displayed in a rectangular shape when setting the effect image for the animation effect is displayed when setting the effect area by displaying the page image (when the effect image setting page 20 is displayed). An area boundary line 53a is displayed around the set area so that the set area can be confirmed.

An animation setting screen 80 (FIG. 47) is displayed by clicking in the “animation effect setting area” 53 displayed in a rectangle, and an effect pattern corresponding to the “animation effect setting area” 53 is set.
On the animation setting screen 80, windows of “style” 81 indicating the type of animation operation, “pattern” 82 indicating the change of animation operation, “magnification of change” 83, and “change time” 84 are displayed. A plurality of selection branches are displayed. In the “style” 81 window, words such as rotation, zoom, and deformation related to the type of animation motion are displayed as keywords as options, and in the “pattern” 82 window, the lower layer for the word selected in “keyword”. By selecting “extends vertically”, “extends horizontally”, “rounds”, and the like, the types of keyword actions can be easily selected. In the “change size” 83 window, a word indicating the degree of change such as small / large is displayed as an option, and in the “change time” 84 window, the length of time such as short / long is displayed as an option. The wording is displayed.
For example, if you want to produce an effect by transforming the animation in the page image, select “Deform” in “Style” 81, and the window of “Pattern” 82 will “extend horizontally”, “extend vertically”, “round”, etc. The type of deformation operation is displayed as an option.

The text or wording is highlighted by clicking on the option for which the effect is desired in each window, and the selection in each window on the animation setting screen 80 is confirmed when the animation setting screen 80 is closed.
When the animation setting screen 80 is closed, playback time data is created, and the animation section 43 of the timeline 40 has a length corresponding to the production time (for example, the time during which the animation operates) corresponding to the production area (“anime production setting area” 53). A rectangular portion 43b is displayed. The position of the left end of the rectangular portion 43b in the timeline 40 corresponds to the reproduction start time of the animation effect, and this reproduction start time corresponds to each effect area (“anime effect setting area” 53 stored in the effect area setting means 12. ) Playback time data.

  The position of the rectangle 43b on the time axis 45 of the timeline 40 is determined based on the reproduction time data created based on the coordinate data of each effect area stored in the effect area setting means 12, and the reproduction position of the effect on the time axis 45. Are automatically sorted. The left end of the rectangular portion 43b is the start of the production time, and the right end is the end. The length of the rectangular portion 43b in the horizontal width direction is displayed in a length corresponding to the time set in advance as the production time, but the tip of the pointing device such as a mouse is positioned at the right end or the left end on the rectangular portion 43b. By dragging in the left-right direction, the length of the rectangular portion 43b is changed, and the effect timing can be edited by changing the start time, the end time, and the effect time length.

In the case of using an animation image used as an animation effect that is obtained by extracting the character part excluding the background data from the “animation effect setting area” 53, background removal data is created at the time of effect setting, and this background removal data Is used as an animation image, the character drawn in the “animation effect setting area” 53 can be given an action corresponding to the “style” 81 and the “pattern” 82 at that location.
When performing an animation production using an animation image, a cross mark (production reference point) is displayed at the center position where the animation image is displayed, and a production effect such as rotation of the animation image with respect to the cross mark is given. The position of the cross mark may be freely set on the screen.
Also, instead of reading from each page of the picture book for anime images, you can use original character images that you have created and stored, or existing anime images that are stored in advance in the production image creation program. There may be.

  As a method of reproducing the animation production, a general animation drawing method is used. For example, the animation image of “dog” extracted from the picture book by removing the background image can be rotated at the position where the dog is depicted on the page, or many rain lines can be depicted on the screen in rainy scenes. In this scene, the entire page is greatly shaken, or a specific face of the group photo is zoomed.

  The animation effect may be associated with the size and position of the effect area. For example, zoom / panning / scroll / spin processing, mosaic processing / deformation processing / ripple processing is performed in correspondence with the effect area.

  In the above example, the animation effect is set as the “story effect”. However, if the secret attribute is selected in the switching window 47 in the effect image setting page 20 and the animation effect is set in the same procedure by clicking the animation window 43a, An animation production as a “secret production” can be set.

In the picture book page (left page 21 and right page 22) in FIG. 46, the sound effect effect area setting 51 by “secret effect” is set for the sun picture 50, and “story effect” is set for the sentence parts 54, 55, and 56. Is set to “sound-reading effect area designation” 57, and “BGM effect area designation” 57 is set to “story effect” for the sentence portion 55, and effects such as sound effects and reading sounds are applied. On the effect setting screen 20, area boundary lines 51a and 57a are displayed for each effect area.
Further, in the timeline 40, an audio part 41 and an audio window 41a, a BGM part 42 and a BGM window 42a, an effect sound part 44 and an effect sound window 44a are displayed, and each rectangular part 41b, 42b corresponding to the production time is displayed. 44b is displayed.

In addition, when the secret effect is set, when the effect setting mode is selected (effect image setting page 20), the mouse cursor (tip of the pointing device) is positioned in the “secret effect setting area” 51. A finger shape 25 indicating that it is possible is displayed.
In the above example, the area designated as the production area is a rectangle, but it may be a circle, a triangle, etc., a closed figure made with a plurality of arbitrarily designated coordinates, or its size. Any sheath shape may be used.
Furthermore, the center point of the effect area is not limited to the center of the figure, and may be an arbitrary point corresponding to the figure. In that case, the user may be able to set freely.

On the effect image setting page 20, the picture book page is displayed in a spread state, and a timeline 40 corresponding to “spoken reading effect”, “BGM effect”, “animation effect”, and “sound effect effect” is displayed below the page. However, by setting “animation effect” and “sound effect effect” at the same timing position in the timeline for the same effect setting area, two types of effect areas are set for the effect area set by the effect area setting means. A production effect can be applied.
For example, with respect to “animation production setting area” 53 as one production area in “story production”, two types of production of animation production and sound effect production corresponding thereto (for example, “dog rotation” and “animation production”) By setting the sound effect production “generate dog barking sound”) at the same timing, it is possible to realize the production effect in which the image and the sound are synchronized.
By initially setting aloud effects on all sentence parts in the page image, the initial values of the page playback time and the playback timing of each effect area are determined based on the coordinate data and playback time data of each effect area. .

When a page image in which the effect is set is reproduced in the effect image reproduction mode, the screen displayed on the display device 7 is a page image reproduction screen 70 shown in FIG. Each region boundary line 57a displayed on the effect image setting page 20 when setting the effect image for the reading aloud effect is not displayed in order not to disturb the original image of the picture book and to keep the secret effect secret. .
When reading the voice reading data, each page image is displayed and played at the sound generation timing set by the voice reading unit 41 of the timeline 40. As described above, the reproduction timing of the production effect is distributed according to the reproduction time data of the production area. That is, on the page image playback screen 70, the text portion 55, the text portion 54, and the text portion 56 are played back in order for each of the reading aloud effect setting areas 57, 57, 57.

  On the image playback screen 70, when the mouse cursor (tip of the pointing device) is located in an area other than the “secret display setting area” 51, the arrow graphic 26 is displayed (FIG. 48 (a)). )) When the mouse cursor (tip of the pointing device) is positioned in the “secret production setting area” 51, a finger shape 25 indicating that it can be clicked is displayed (FIG. 48B). In the effect image playback mode (viewing mode), it can be recognized that it is a “secret effect setting area”.

  In each of the above-described examples, the display device 7 displays the left and right pages of the picture book page in a spread state, and reproduces the pages so that they are turned one by one. It may be a way of reproduction.

  According to the effect image creation device and the effect image creation program described above, a page image of a picture book that a child wants to show to a child, such as a masterpiece picture book or a picture-story show, is read into a computer, and in response to this, the movement of characters appearing changes with his own sensitivity You can set the animation production that gives you the freedom, and you can change the scene and picture of each scene by setting the secret mechanism that the child finds himself surprised or happy as a secret production. , You can freely enjoy your own picture book production that can not be tasted with conventional electronic picture books that have only fixed mechanism and production.

  Furthermore, since the region where the effect is to be produced in the page image, the secret effect object and type, the effect timing, etc. can be freely changed at any time, it is possible to enjoy fresh picture book appreciation repeatedly for one subject.

  In addition, the user can provide an intuitive and easy-to-understand user interface because the user can edit the image, story, and secret while editing the actual picture book page on the computer screen.

  In the above-described example, an example in which an effect is given to a picture book having a plurality of page images has been described. However, the present invention can be implemented even with an image such as a picture or a poster other than a picture book.

  By using the effect image creating apparatus of the present invention, various effects such as the “component image” itself moving using the component image extracted from the page image, for example, the effect of moving the position of the component image, Can produce effects such as enlargement / reduction, rotation, deformation (elongation, inversion, distortion, balloon, perspective, etc.), transparency, contour enhancement, etc. it can.

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Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... CPU, 2 ... ROM, 3 ... RAM, 4 ... Sound source device, 5 ... Scanner device, 6 ... Input device, 7 ... Display device, 8 ... External recording device, 9 ... A / D converter, 10 ... Microphone, DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Image memory | storage means, 12 ... Production area setting means, 13 ... Parts image extraction means (component image automatic extraction means), 14 ... Background image creation means, 15 ... Production effect setting means, 16 ... Production reproduction means, 20 ... Production Image setting page, 30 ... operation key window, 40 ... time line, 45 ... time axis, 47 ... switching window, 53 ... animation production setting area, 53a ... area boundary line, 70 ... page image playback screen, 80 ... animation setting screen 200 ... Production image setting screen 201 ... Page image 210 ... Parts image 211 ... Production setting area 220 ... Animation production setting screen 221 ... Parts Image generation window 222... Rear image generation window 230. Animation image editing screen 232 Brush unit (paint tool) 233 Transparent window (mask mode) 234 Color restoration window (mask cancel mode) 235 ... coloring window, 260 ... type selection section, 261 ... text window, 270 ... style selection section, 280 ... pattern selection section, O ... production origin (center point of production area), P ... production reference point.

Claims (9)

An apparatus for producing a rendering effect on a page image displayed on a screen,
An effect area is set in the page image, and an arbitrary position in the screen is set as an effect reference point.
An effect image creating apparatus comprising effect effect setting means for providing an effect based on a positional relationship between the center point of the effect area and the effect reference point. The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the effect effect provided by the effect effect setting means is such that a text display portion newly written in a page image changes. The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the effect effect imparted by the effect effect setting unit changes the entire page image. The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the effect effect imparted by the effect effect setting means is such that a component image portion displayed on a page image changes. An effect area setting means for setting an effect area corresponding to a part image to be effected from the page image, and a component image automatic extracting means for automatically extracting a part image based on the image of the effect area,
The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the effect effect setting means sets an effect reference point for an image generated based on the component image. The effect image creating apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when a secret effect that causes an unexpected image change in the page image is selected, the effect reference point is a position of a mouse cursor during reproduction of the secret effect. The entire area of the page image displayed on the screen, the rendering area setting step of selecting as the effect area which imparts rendering effect for text display part newly written into the partial region or the page image,
An effect reference point setting step for setting an arbitrary position in the screen on which the page image is displayed as an effect reference point;
An effect setting step for selecting and providing the content of the effect based on the positional relationship between the center point of the effect area and the effect reference point;
An effect image creating method characterized by comprising: An effect image creating program capable of executing each step of the effect image creating method according to claim 7 by a computer. A computer-readable recording medium in which the effect image creating program according to claim 8 is stored.