JP5214051B1 - Image processing apparatus and image processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

An image processing apparatus and an image processing program are provided that can be easily browsed because image files are organized and can be easily moved when stored again.
A mobile phone 10 has a plurality of shutter buttons B91 to B94 displayed as icon buttons on a display means. By pressing the shutter buttons B91 to B94, tag information indicating an electronic album is given to the image file from the photographing means by the tag assignment control means. Since tag information is added to the image file at the time of shooting, the electronic album control means extracts an image file to which tag information indicating the electronic album selected for browsing is added when browsing the electronic album, and displays it on the display means. Since it is displayed, it is easy to organize.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing program for capturing an image such as a still image or a moving image as an image file, storing the image in a storage unit, and browsing the image from a display unit.

  Mobile phones called video cameras, tablet terminals, and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant or Personal Data Assistance) that acquire still images or moving images as image files There are known information terminals, scanners for acquiring information on paper as an image, and the like.

  In a digital camera or a mobile phone having a function as a digital camera, a captured image is an image file in JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format, and a video is an AVI (Audio Video Interleave) file or AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) Stored as an image file such as a format or Motion JPEG format. In the scanner, it is acquired in a format such as JPEG, PNG (Portable Network Graphics), TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), BMP (Bit MaP), or PDF (Portable Document Format).

  In a digital camera, as a storage means for storing image files, a memory card incorporating a nonvolatile memory such as an SD memory card or a compact flash (registered trademark), or a nonvolatile memory incorporated in a mobile phone (digital camera). used. A “DCIM” folder is created in the root of the memory card, a folder unique to the manufacturer is created under “DCIM”, and the photographed file is stored under the folder unique to the manufacturer.

  When organizing image files stored in a folder unique to a manufacturer at a storage location such as a personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a PC) or a remote server (a server on the cloud), for example, The image file is moved to each storage folder that has been created in advance and is classified, and the work of re-storing the image file in the storage folder is complicated.

  The scanner also organizes the acquired images by specifying a folder for storing the acquired images on a PC connected to the scanner or storing them in a folder on a server in the cloud that has been set in advance. This requires complicated work.

An electronic device with a camera described in Patent Document 1 is known for organizing such image files.
In the electronic apparatus with a camera described in Patent Document 1, shooting operation means for performing a shooting operation is assigned to numeric keys (“0” to “9”), and storage destinations (user folders “1” to “1”). 10 ”), the numeric key is used not only for the shooting operation but also for the operation for specifying the storage destination of the shot image data.

JP 2004-320622 A

  However, in the electronic device with a camera described in Patent Document 1, although the image files are stored in the respective user folders in an organized state, when the image files are collected later or moved to the PC, It is troublesome to move the image files under each user folder to one folder or to move the image files in each user folder.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and an image processing program in which image files are organized and can be easily browsed and can be easily moved when stored again.

  The image processing apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of instruction means for instructing acquisition of an image to a capture means for acquiring an image such as a still image or a moving image as an image file, and the storage means that is acquired by the capture means. Tag information for identifying a group corresponding to the instruction means for which the image acquisition operation has been performed among the plurality of instruction means and for grouping the image file is added to the image file stored under the folder. When the tag assignment control means and the image file under the storage folder of the storage means are browsed by designating a group, the image file to which the tag information indicating the browse selected group is added is extracted and displayed on the display means. And browsing control means for displaying.

  According to the image processing apparatus of the present invention, the tag addition control unit adds tag information corresponding to the shutter button that has been subjected to the image acquisition operation among the plurality of instruction units to the shooting file, and the electronic album control unit is browsed and selected. Since the shooting file to which the tag information indicating the electronic album is attached is extracted and displayed on the display means, it is possible to organize at the stage of shooting. In addition, since the captured file is stored in the storage folder of the storage unit, it can be easily moved.

The plurality of instruction means display icon buttons corresponding to one of the groups on the display means, a capture control means for notifying the capture means that the icon button has been subjected to an image acquisition operation, and the icon buttons It is desirable to use an operation detection unit that detects an image acquisition operation at the position of the display unit on which is displayed.
By using a plurality of instruction means as icon buttons displayed on the display means, it is possible to easily cope with an increase in the instruction means.

The capture control means preferably displays the latest image file as an icon button for which an image acquisition operation has been performed.
When the latest image file is displayed as an icon button for which image acquisition has been performed, it is possible to see at a glance which group the most recently acquired image file belongs and to visually grasp the contents of the group. .

  The capture control means preferably deselects the displayed icon buttons other than the icon button selected at the start of capture when the moving image is captured by the capture means. By doing so, the operator can select the acquisition end icon button without erroneous operation.

  If the image file is a file having an Exif area, the tagging control means writes the character information set in association with the group into the Exif area of the shooting file or associates the character information with the shooting file. It is desirable to store in. Since the character information can be associated with the image file when the image file is acquired, high convenience can be obtained. In addition, since character information is written in the Exif area of the target image file, even when the image file is moved or copied to another device, various character information can be referred to by the other device.

  Preferably, the tag addition control unit adds tag information corresponding to two or more selected instruction units to the image file when two or more instruction units are selected from the plurality of instruction units. Since two or more pieces of tag information are given to the image file, even when it is desired to select and view the image file in two or more groups, it can be assigned at the time of acquisition of the image file.

The plurality of instruction means includes an instruction means corresponding to only the storage folder, and the tag assignment control means includes a tag for an image acquisition operation to the instruction means corresponding to only the storage folder. It is desirable not to add information to the image file.
The tag assignment control means does not assign tag information to the image file when the image acquisition operation is performed on the instruction means corresponding to only the storage folder. A response can be achieved by simply selecting.

  The image processing apparatus according to the present invention is obtained by a storage means that is obtained by a plurality of instruction means for instructing acquisition of an image to a capture means for acquiring an image such as a still image or a moving image as an image file. Tag information for identifying a group corresponding to the instruction means for which the image acquisition operation has been performed among the plurality of instruction means, and for grouping the image files. Tag assignment control means for assigning, when browsing an image file under a storage folder of the storage means by designating a group, an image file to which tag information indicating the group selected for viewing is extracted and displayed It can be realized by an image processing program characterized by functioning as a browsing control means for displaying on the screen.

  In the present invention, since tag information indicating a group is attached to an image file, it can be organized at the stage of image acquisition, and all image files are stored under a storage folder of the storage means, so that movement and the like can also be performed. Easy. Therefore, according to the present invention, image files are organized and can be easily browsed, and can be easily moved even when stored again.

It is a perspective view which shows the external appearance of the mobile telephone which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the mobile telephone shown in FIG. 1, and is a figure which shows an initial screen. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the electronic album display screen at the time of creating a new electronic album, (A) is a figure at the time of designating edit, (B) is a figure at the time of designating addition. It is a figure which shows an example of the creation screen of a new electronic album. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of the electronic album display screen of the state in which the new electronic album was added, (A) is a figure which shows the state which addition was completed, (B) is a figure which shows the state where edit mode was complete | finished is there. It is a figure which shows the display screen at the time of imaging | photography on which the some shutter button was displayed. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a shutter setting menu screen, (A) is a figure at the time of designating the electronic album used as object, (B) is a figure which shows the setting selection screen from which the electronic album "travel" was selected. . It is a figure which shows the example of a display of an Exif write setting screen. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of a moving image write setting screen. It is a figure which shows the example of a display of another information writing setting screen. It is a figure which shows the Exif write information, moving image write information, and other write information linked | related with the tag information which shows an electronic album in a memory | storage means. It is a figure which shows the image file linked | related with the tag information which shows an electronic album in a memory | storage means. It is a figure which shows the state which displayed the image file stored in the preservation | save folder as a thumbnail. It is a figure which shows the state which displayed the image file linked | related with the electronic album "travel" as a thumbnail. It is a figure which shows the state which displayed one of the image files of the still image linked | related with the electronic album "travel". It is a figure which shows the display screen at the time of the moving image photography on which the some shutter button was displayed, (A) is a figure which shows the state before imaging | photography, (B) is a figure which shows during imaging | photography. (A) is a figure which shows the state which displayed the image file linked | related with the electronic album "travel" as a thumbnail, (B) is one of the image files of the moving image linked | related with the electronic album "travel". It is a figure which shows the state displayed.

  An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described using a mobile phone having a digital camera function as an example. In FIG. 2, only main components for explaining the present invention are shown, and configurations showing a telephone function, an Internet connection function (web access, electronic mail), a wireless communication function, etc. are shown. Absent.

A mobile phone 10 according to the present embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is a smartphone having a digital camera function in which display means is arranged on the front surface of a case C having a rectangular shape in front view. By operating an image processing program on a computer built in the cellular phone 10, it functions as an image processing apparatus (digital camera) of the present invention.
The mobile phone 10 includes a display unit 20, an operation detection unit 30, a photographing unit 40, a shutter control unit 50, a tag addition control unit 60, an electronic album control unit 70, a storage unit 80, and a setting unit 90. It has.

The display means 20 is formed by a thin display. As the display means 20, a liquid crystal display panel (LCD: Liquid Crystal Display), an organic EL (electroluminescence) display, or the like can be used.
The operation detection unit 30 is a sheet-like position input unit disposed on the front surface of the display unit 20 and can detect an operation with a fingertip. In the present embodiment, using this detection function, the operation detection unit 30 is made to detect the image acquisition operation at the position of the display unit 20 where the icon button is displayed by the shutter control unit 50. The operation detection means 30 can be a touch panel.
The photographing unit 40 has a function as a capturing unit that captures and outputs a still image or a moving image captured based on an image acquisition instruction as an image file.

  The shutter control unit 50 functions as a capture control unit that displays a plurality of icon buttons on the display unit 20 as shutter buttons and notifies the capture unit that the icon button has been operated to acquire an image. In the present embodiment, an icon button serving as a shutter button displayed by the shutter control unit 50, and an operation unit for performing an image acquisition instruction operation using the icon button, and an instruction unit for instructing image acquisition are configured. Has been.

  The tagging control means 60 is used to identify the electronic album corresponding to the operated shutter button in the image file that is captured by the image acquisition instruction to the shutter button and stored in the storage folder set in the storage means 80. It has a function to add tag information. Here, the electronic album refers to a group divided for organizing and storing image files, and is a virtual album that can manage image files in a list as if they were booklet albums.

  When the electronic album control means 70 creates a new electronic album, changes the contents of an existing electronic album, or selects an electronic album to be viewed by the operator, tag information corresponding to the electronic album is added. The image file is extracted from the storage unit 80 and displayed on the display unit 20.

The storage unit 80 stores image files, tag information, various setting information, and the like. The storage means 80 can be a flash memory. When the storage means 80 is a flash memory, it can be a built-in memory or a removable memory card. Further, the storage means 80 can be a disk device.
The setting unit 90 has a function of setting in advance various information associated with an image file when an image acquisition operation is performed on the shutter button.

The operation and use state of the mobile phone 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention configured as described above will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 3, various icon buttons are displayed on the display means 20 on the initial screen of the mobile phone 10. When creating a new electronic album, the “album” button B11 is pressed (tapped) with the fingertip.

  When the operator presses the position of the “album” button B11, the operation detection unit 30 notifies the electronic album control unit 70 of the press. As shown in FIG. 4A, the electronic album control unit 70 displays the title “album”, the “save folder” in which the image file is stored, and the created electronic album as a list on the display unit 20. To do. In FIG. 4A, since the electronic album is not created because it is in an initial state, only “storage folder” is displayed.

When a new electronic album is created, an “edit” button B21 is pressed. By this pressing, the electronic album control means 70 enters the edit mode.
In the edit mode, the title “new album”, the message “Please enter the name of the album”, the “add” button B22, and the “complete” button B23 are displayed on the display means 20. In this case, Then, the “Add” button B22 is pressed.

As shown in FIG. 5, on the creation screen of a new electronic album, a simple keyboard KB for inputting the name of the electronic album, an input frame F11 in which characters input by the simple keyboard KB are displayed, and the input is completed. In this case, a “Save” button B31 for saving the name of the electronic album and a “Cancel” button B32 for not saving the name of the electronic album are displayed. When the “save” button B31 is pressed, the electronic album control unit 70 stores the name of the electronic album in the storage unit 80 as tag information.
In the example of FIG. 6A, “travel” and “memo” are created as electronic albums.

  When the creation of a new electronic album is completed, the operator presses a “complete” button B23 shown in FIG. 6A, so that the electronic album control means 70 ends the editing mode, and FIG. As shown, an electronic album display screen is displayed.

Next, the shutter button is set. In this case, the operator first presses the “camera” button B12 in order to shift from the initial screen shown in FIG. 3 to the camera mode.
When the operator presses the position of the “camera” button B12, the operation detection unit 30 notifies the shutter control unit 50 of the press. In the display in the camera mode, the shutter control unit 50 displays the shutter buttons B91 to B94 shown in FIG. Further, the photographing means 40 displays the photographing signal from the lens in real time as the background of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 (see FIG. 7). In the display in the camera mode, a switching button B95 for switching between the camera mode and the video mode is displayed.
By using the plurality of shutter buttons B91 to B94 as icon buttons displayed on the display means 20, it is possible to easily cope with the increase or decrease of the shutter buttons.
In this camera mode, when the operator performs an operation (flick) to stroke the surface of the display means 20 (operation detection means 30) in the right direction, this operation is notified to the setting means 90. The setting means 90 displays the shutter setting menu screen shown in FIG.

In the example shown in FIG. 8A, in addition to the titles “shutter setting” and “save folder”, “travel”, “memo”, and “work” are displayed as electronic albums.
For example, when setting the electronic album “Travel” is desired, the operator first selects “Travel” and then presses the “Edit” button B41. In response to the pressing of the “edit” button B41 from the operation detection unit 30, the setting unit 90 displays a setting selection screen for the electronic album “travel” shown in FIG.

  In the setting selection screen shown in FIG. 8B, the title “setting“ travel ””, the “return” button B51 for returning to the shutter setting menu screen (see FIG. 8A), and the “shutter display” are valid. "ON" button B52 and "OFF" button B53 for selecting whether or not, "Write to Exif", "Write to video file", and "Write other information" are displayed. Has been.

  The operator presses the “ON” button B52 when the user wants to display an icon button corresponding to the electronic album “travel” as a shutter button, and presses the “OFF” button B53 when the user does not want to display the icon button. By this selection, the shutter control unit 50 stores the shutter display setting information in the storage unit 80 in association with the tag information.

Next, when the operator selects “write to Exif”, the setting unit 90 displays the Exif write setting screen shown in FIG. 9.
In the Exif writing setting screen shown in FIG. 9, the titles “writing to Exif”, “comment”, “photographer”, “title”, and “copyright holder” are displayed, and the respective input frames. To return to the original screen, "ON" buttons B61 to B64 and "OFF" buttons B65 to B68 for setting whether to write the inputs of F21 to F24 and the input frames F21 to F24 in the Exif area of the image file "Return" button B69 is displayed.

Information input to the input frames F21 to F24 is written in the corresponding area of Exif of the image file when the shutter is pressed.
The “comment” is an area corresponding to Exif “user comment (UserComment)” (tag number 37510).
The “photographer” is an area corresponding to “CameraOwerName” (tag number 43032) of Exif.
The “title” is an area corresponding to “Image Title” (tag number 270) of Exif.
The “copyright holder” is an area corresponding to Exif “photographing copyright holder / edited copyright holder (Copyright)” (tag number 33432).

  Tag information, which is the name of the electronic album, is input as an initial value (default) in the input frame F21 for inputting “comment”. By setting the name of the electronic album as an initial value, even if the operator is troublesome to input, or the image file is moved to another device, the electronic album (tag information) is referred to by referring to the Exif area. Can be confirmed. Therefore, the information of the “comment” in the Exif area can be searched with a prosecution keyword or aggregated into an electronic album, and the image files can be organized and browsed by other devices.

  When the input is completed, the “return” button B69 is pressed. At this time, the information input in the input frames F21 to F24 is stored in the storage unit 80 in association with the tag information by the setting unit 90 as Exif write information. When the “return” button B69 is pressed, the setting selection screen shown in FIG.

Next, a case where the operator selects “write to moving image” will be described. The setting means 90 displays the moving image writing setting screen shown in FIG.
In the moving image writing setting screen shown in FIG. 10, the titles “writing to moving image”, ““ comment ”,“ photographer ”,“ title ”, and“ copyright holder ”are displayed and input respectively. Frames F31 to F34, “ON” buttons B71 to B74 for setting whether or not the inputs of the input frames F31 to F34 are associated with the tag information and registered in the storage unit 80, “OFF” buttons B75 to B78, A “return” button B79 for returning to the screen is displayed.

  When the input is completed, the “return” button B79 is pressed. At this time, the information input in the input frames F31 to F34 is stored in the storage unit 80 in association with the tag information as moving image writing information by the setting unit 90. When the “return” button B79 is pressed, the setting selection screen shown in FIG.

Next, when the operator selects “write other information”, the shutter control means 50 displays another information write setting screen shown in FIG.
In the other information writing setting screen shown in FIG. 11, the title “writing other information”, “item 1” to “item 4”, input frames F41 to F44, and input frames F41 to F44 are displayed. "ON" buttons B81 to B84 for setting whether to write input to the Exif area of the image file, "OFF" buttons B85 to B88, and a "return" button B89 for returning to the original screen are displayed. .

  When the input is completed, the “return” button B89 is pressed. At this time, the information input in the input frames F41 to F44 is stored in the storage unit 80 in association with the tag information by the setting unit 90 as other writing information. When the “return” button B89 is pressed, the setting selection screen shown in FIG.

  FIG. 12 shows a state in the storage unit 80 in which the shutter display setting information, the Exif writing information, the moving image writing information, and the other writing information are associated with the tag information indicating the electronic album.

  When the setting is completed in this way, the “camera” button B12 is pressed from the initial screen shown in FIG. By pressing the “camera” button B12, the operation detection unit 30 notifies the shutter control unit 50 that the “camera” button B12 has been pressed. As a result, the mobile phone 10 enters the camera mode.

In the camera mode shown in FIG. 7, when the operator wants to take a picture, he selects one of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 and presses it as an image acquisition operation. At this time, if the operator wants to take a picture associated with the electronic album, he / she presses one of the shutter buttons B91 to B93, and if he wants to take a picture not related to the electronic album, the shutter button Press B94. When any one of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 is pressed, the operation detection unit 30 notifies the shutter control unit 50 that the corresponding shutter button B91 to B94 is pressed.
In response to this notification, the shutter control means 50 notifies the photographing means 40 of photographing and also notifies the tag addition control means 60.

When the shutter button B91 with the name “Travel” displayed on the icon button is pressed, the tag information of the electronic album “Travel” is added to the image file which is a still image from the photographing unit 40, and the storage unit 80 stored in the save folder.
Similarly, when one of the shutter buttons B92 and B93 in which the names “memo” and “work” are displayed on the icon button is similarly pressed, an image file that is a still image from the photographing means 40 is displayed. The tag information of the electronic album “memo” or “work” is assigned to the storage folder 80 and stored in the storage folder.
When the shutter button B94 whose name is “Save Folder” is displayed on the icon button, tag information is not added to the image file which is a still image from the photographing unit 40, and the storage unit 80 It is stored in the save folder.
Further, if the Exif writing information (see FIG. 12) associated with the tag information is set, the tag addition control means 60 writes it in the Exif area of the target image file.

For example, it is assumed that a picture is taken by performing an image acquisition operation on the shutter button B91 (“travel”), the shutter button B92 (“memo”), and the shutter button B94 (“storage folder”).
As shown in FIG. 13, the image files are named ABC001. jpg to ABC017. jpg is assigned and stored in the storage folder of the storage unit 80 as a file in JPEG format. In addition, ABC001. Taken by pressing the shutter button B91 corresponding to the electronic album “Travel”. The tag information “travel” is associated with jpg. ABC005. Taken by pressing the shutter button B92 corresponding to the icon button “memo”. The tag information “memo” is associated with jpg. ABC017 .. taken by pressing the shutter button B94 corresponding to the icon button “save folder”. jpg is not associated with any tag information.

  Each time an image acquisition operation is performed, the shutter control unit 50 displays the latest image file as a pressed icon button that functions as a shutter button. For example, in the shutter control means 50, first, the shutter button B91 is pressed, and ABC001. If jpg is photographed, the ABC001. jpg is displayed. The shutter control means 50 then presses the shutter button B91 so that ABC002. If jpg is photographed, as an icon button of the shutter button B91, ABC002. jpg is displayed.

  The shutter control means 50 displays the latest image file as an icon button for which image acquisition operation has been performed, so that it can be known at a glance to which electronic album the most recently captured image file belongs. The contents can be grasped.

  In the display means 20 shown in FIG. 7, four shutter buttons (shutter buttons B91 to B94) are displayed. However, when the number of electronic albums increases and the shutter buttons cannot be displayed, the shutters are displayed. When an operation (drag or flick) is performed to stroke the area where the button is displayed in either the left or right direction, the shutter control means 50 shifts the shutter button in the display state and the shutter in the non-display state. Displays buttons sequentially.

  Next, when it is desired to refer to the image file, the operator presses an “album” button B11 on the initial screen shown in FIG. When this operation is notified by the operation detection means 30, the electronic album control means 70 displays an electronic album display screen as shown in FIG.

  If the operator selects “save folder”, the electronic album control unit 70 displays all of the image files stored in the save folder on the display unit 20. In this case, as shown in FIG. jpg to ABC017. jpg is displayed as a thumbnail. In FIG. 14, the extension of the notation of the image file name indicating the thumbnail is omitted. Hereinafter, the description of thumbnails of image files in the drawings is the same.

  If the operator selects “Travel” on the electronic album display screen as shown in FIG. 6B, the electronic album control means 70 selects tag information from among the image files stored in the storage folder. The image file associated with the tag information indicating the electronic album “travel” is displayed on the display means 20. In this case, as shown in FIG. jpg to ABC004. jpg and ABC006. jpg to ABC009. jpg and ABC012. jpg to ABC013. jpg is displayed as a thumbnail.

  When an operator views an image file, when the thumbnail of the corresponding image file is pressed, the electronic album control unit 70 displays an enlarged photograph on the display unit 20 as shown in FIG. At this time, if the Exif writing information set on the Exif writing setting screen shown in FIG. 9 is associated with the tag information indicating the electronic album “travel”, the electronic album control means 70 stores the Exif writing information. Read from the means 80 and display “comment”, “photographer”, “title”, and “copyright holder” in the display area.

  If the other writing information set on the information writing setting screen shown in FIG. 11 is associated with the tag information indicating the electronic album “travel”, the electronic album control unit 70 stores the other writing information. 80, “Item 1” to “Item 4” are displayed in the display area. Since character information can be associated with an image file at the time of still image shooting in this way, high convenience can be obtained.

  As described above, in the mobile phone 10, the tag addition control unit adds tag information corresponding to the shutter button on which the image acquisition operation is performed among the plurality of shutter buttons to the image file, and the electronic album control unit browses and selects the electronic Since the image file with the tag information indicating the album is extracted and displayed on the display means, it is possible to organize at the stage of photographing. Further, since the image file is stored in the storage folder of the storage means, it can be easily moved.

  Further, if the Exif writing information (see FIG. 12) associated with the tag information is set, the tag assignment control means 60 writes the image file in the Exif area of the target image file, so that the image file is transferred to another device. Even when moved or copied, various character information can be referred to by other devices.

  In addition, the plurality of shutter buttons B91 to B94 include a shutter button B94 corresponding to only the storage folder. The tag assignment control means 60 does not assign tag information to the image file when the shutter button B94 associated with only the storage folder is pressed, so that even when shooting is not desired to be associated with the electronic album, the shutter buttons B91 to B94 are used. A response can be achieved only by selection.

In the above description, one of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 is photographed by pressing one of the shutter buttons, but two or more shutter buttons B91 to B93 may be selected. In that case, tag assignment control means 60 assigns to the image file tag information corresponding to two or more shutter buttons for which an image acquisition operation has been performed. Therefore, when browsing an electronic album related to the tag information given to the image file, the corresponding image file is displayed in any electronic album.
In this way, even when it is desired to view an image file with two or more electronic albums, it can be assigned at the time of image file shooting.

  Next, the case of a moving image will be described. In the case of operation, first, the switch button B95 is pressed from the camera mode display shown in FIG. By pressing the switching button B95, the operation detecting unit 30 notifies the shutter control unit 50 that the switching button B95 has been pressed. As a result, the mobile phone 10 enters the video mode (see FIG. 17). In the video mode display, the mode may be identified by changing the background of the back part of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 to the camera mode.

  The operator presses one of the shutter buttons B91 to B94 displayed on the display unit 20 by the shutter control unit 50 (see FIG. 17A). For example, it is assumed that the shutter button B91 corresponding to the electronic album “travel” is pressed.

This depression is notified to the photographing means 40 and the shutter control means 50 by the operation detection means 30. In response to this notification, the photographing unit 40 starts photographing moving images and sequentially stores them in the storage unit 80 as an imaging file. The shutter control unit 50 puts all buttons other than the shutter button B91 selected as the image acquisition operation (shutter buttons B92 to B94) into a non-selected state.
By doing so, the operator can select a shutter button for ending photographing without performing an erroneous operation.
Further, by displaying “REC” on the shutter button B91 to indicate that the recording is in progress, the operator can recognize at a glance that the recording is in progress.

When the shutter button B91 that was pressed at the start of shooting is pressed again, tag information indicating the electronic album “travel” is added to the image file that is a moving image stored in the storage unit 80, and the tag information “travel” is displayed. If the moving image writing information or the other writing information is set in “”, the moving image writing information and the other writing information are associated with the image file.
When viewing an image file that is a moving image, the electronic album “travel” is referred to. As shown in FIG. 18A, in the electronic album “Travel”, an image file with tag information “Travel” is extracted, so that the electronic album control means 70 uses the thumbnail of the image file that is a still image. At the same time, an image file “ABC018” (moving is omitted in FIG. 18A), which is a moving image, is added and displayed on the display means 20.

When the operator views the image file, when the thumbnail of the corresponding image file “ABC018” is pressed, the electronic album control unit 70 displays the enlarged moving image on the display unit 20 as shown in FIG. To do. At this time, if the moving image writing information and the other writing information set on the information writing setting screen shown in FIG. 10 are associated with the tag information indicating the electronic album “travel”, the electronic album control means 70 The moving image writing information and other writing information are read from the storage means 80, and "comment", "photographer", "title", "copyright holder", and "item 1" to "item 4" are displayed in the display area. To do. Since character information can be associated with an image file at the time of moving image shooting in this way, high convenience can be obtained.
In this embodiment, the shutter button is an icon button displayed on the display means 20, but a mechanical shutter button provided on the case can be used as long as it is associated with the electronic album. it can.

In the present embodiment, the cellular phone 10 with a digital camera function has been described as an example. However, for example, when the capturing unit is a scanner, the scanner has an interface such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) or a wireless LAN. Images captured from a scanner by operating the image processing program of the present invention on a PC such as a desktop computer, notebook computer, palmtop computer, portable information terminal such as a tablet terminal or PDA connected via You can handle files as well.
Specifically, when the image processing program of the present invention is operated on a PC, an icon button that functions as an instruction unit is displayed on the display unit of the PC based on the setting. When this icon button (instruction means) is pressed with a mouse or keyboard and an image is acquired from a scanner (capture means), tag assignment control means of the PC assigns tag information corresponding to the icon button to the image file, The data is stored in a storage folder as a storage destination such as a PC or a server on a cloud connected to the PC via a network. When browsing an image file stored on a PC or server, if an electronic album (group) set in the PC or server is selected, the electronic album control means (viewing control means) selects the selected electronic album. The image file to which the tag information shown is added is extracted and displayed on the display means. As described above, even if the image file storage destination is a PC that is a local disk or a server that is a cloud (or network drive), the image processing program similarly functions as a PC as an image processing apparatus. Can be made.

  As described above, by operating the image processing program of the present invention on the PC, the capturing unit can be used as a scanner as in the case of the mobile phone 10. Note that the image file stored in the PC save folder can be JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, or PDF, but the tag information is associated as a separate file other than JPEG having an Exif area. Thus, tag information can be assigned to the image file.

  The image processing apparatus and the image processing program of the present invention are suitable for a digital camera dedicated device, a video camera, a mobile phone / portable terminal device having a digital camera function for taking a still image or a moving image, a scanner, and the like.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cellular phone 20 Display means 30 Operation detection means 40 Shooting means 50 Shutter control means 60 Tag assignment control means 70 Electronic album control means 80 Storage means 90 Setting means B11 “Album” button B12 “Camera” button B21 “Edit” button B22 “ “Add” button B23 “Finish” button B31 “Save” button B32 “Cancel” button B41 “Edit” button B51 “Back” button B52 “ON” button B53 “OFF” button B61-B64 “ON” button B65-B68 “OFF” ”Button B69, B79, B89“ Return ”button B71 to B74“ ON ”button B75 to B78“ OFF ”button B81 to B84“ ON ”button B85 to B88“ OFF ”button B91 to B94 Shutter button B95 Switch button KB simple keyboard F11, F21~F24, F31~F34, F41~F44 input frame

Claims (6)

A plurality of instruction means for instructing acquisition of an image to a capturing means for acquiring an image such as a still image or a moving image as an image file;
A group corresponding to the instruction means for which the image acquisition operation has been performed among the plurality of instruction means, in order to classify the image files into the image files acquired by the capture means and stored in the storage folder of the storage means Tagging control means for assigning tag information for identifying the group,
A browsing control unit that extracts an image file to which tag information indicating a group selected for browsing is extracted and displayed on the display unit when browsing the image file under the storage folder of the storage unit by designating a group; equipped with a,
The plurality of instruction means display icon buttons corresponding to one of the groups on the display means, a capture control means for notifying the capture means that the icon button has been subjected to an image acquisition operation, and the icon buttons And an operation detection means for detecting an image acquisition operation at the position of the display means on which is displayed,
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the moving image is captured by the capturing unit, the displayed icon buttons other than the icon button selected at the start of capturing are deselected . Said intake control means, the latest image file, the image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein displaying the icon buttons that are image acquisition operation. If the image file is a file having an Exif area, the tagging control means writes the character information set in association with the group into the Exif area of the shooting file or associates the character information with the shooting file. the image processing apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein stored. The tag addition control unit adds tag information corresponding to two or more selected instruction units to an image file when two or more instruction units are selected from the plurality of instruction units. The image processing apparatus according to any one of items 3 to 3 . The plurality of instruction means includes instruction means corresponding to only the storage folder,
Said tag application control means, wherein when the storage folder only in the image acquisition operation to instruction means that associates the image processing as claimed in claim 1 which does not impart tag information to the image file to one of the sections 4 apparatus. Computer
A plurality of instruction means for instructing acquisition of an image to a capturing means for acquiring an image such as a still image or a moving image as an image file;
A group corresponding to the instruction means for which the image acquisition operation has been performed among the plurality of instruction means, in order to classify the image files into the image files acquired by the capture means and stored in the storage folder of the storage means Tagging control means for providing tag information for identifying a group of
As browsing control means for extracting an image file to which tag information indicating a group selected for browsing is extracted and browsing the image file under the storage folder of the storage means by designating a group. Make it work ,
The plurality of instruction means, an icon button corresponding to one of the groups is displayed on the display means, a capture control means for notifying the capture means that the icon button has been operated for image acquisition, and the icon button Function as an operation detection means for detecting an image acquisition operation to the position of the display means on which is displayed,
Said intake control means, when taking a moving image by the capturing means, and wherein Rukoto to function to display other than the icon button selected by taking initiated icon button deselected Image processing program.

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