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Portable telephone capable of recording a composite image

US7652693B2 · kind B2 · utility

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6Claims
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Filing dateJul 1, 2003
Grant dateJan 26, 2010
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Expiry dateJan 5, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2007/145
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An object of the invention is to provide a mobile telephone capable of generating a highly flexible composite image for the user. The mobile telephone of the invention includes image memory (16) for recording a base image, mask image memory (17) in which a plurality of types of mask image data representing mask images to specify the combining positions of combination object images with each base image and the image pickup areas when the combination object images are picked up by a camera section (11) are stored corresponding to the base images, and a CPU (12) for reading the mask image data selected by the user from the mask image memory (17), displaying the mask image based on the read mask image data on a display section (15), recording the image to be combined, picked up based on the displayed mask image in RAM (14), combines the recorded image to be combined at the combining position of the base image specified by the selected mask image data, and recording a composite image resulting from the combining in the image memory (16).

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