Image editing apparatus, image editing method, and storage medium storing image editing control program

摘要

An image editing method includes detecting positions of the moving object contained in the images for the stored series of images, detecting a locus of movement of the moving object based on the detected positions of the moving object contained in the series of images, specifying an image corresponding to a feature point of the detected locus of movement of the moving object, extracting, from the series of images stored in the memory, images which include the specified image and correspond to a second shooting time interval longer than the first shooting time interval, and storing the extracted series of images as an image file in a memory.

主权项

1. An image editing apparatus comprising:
an image storage unit storing a series of images obtained by shooting a moving object at a first shooting time interval; a moving position detection unit configured to detect positions of the moving object contained in the images for the series of images stored in the image storage unit; a locus-of-movement detection unit configured to detect a locus of movement of the moving object based on the positions of the moving object contained in the series of images that have been detected by the moving position detection unit; a feature image specifying unit configured to specify an image corresponding to a feature point of the locus of movement of the moving object that has been detected by the locus-of-movement detection unit; an image extraction unit configured to extract, from the series of images stored in the image storage unit, a series of images which include the image specified by the feature image specifying unit and correspond to a second shooting time interval longer than the first shooting time interval; and an extracted image file storage unit configured to store the series of images extracted by the image extraction unit as an image file, wherein: the feature image specifying unit includes a first image specifying unit configured to specify an image closest to the feature point of the locus of movement of the moving object that has been detected by the locus-of-movement detection unit, and a second image specifying unit configured to specify an image second closest to the feature point of the locus of movement of the moving object that has been detected by the locus-of-movement detection unit, the image extraction unit includes a first image extraction unit configured to extract, as a first series of images from the series of images stored in the image storage unit, images which include the image specified by the first feature image specifying unit and correspond to the second shooting time interval longer than the first shooting time interval, and a second image extraction unit configured to extract, as a second series of images from the series of images stored in the image storage unit, images which include the image specified by the second feature image specifying unit and correspond to the second shooting time interval longer than the first shooting time interval, and the extracted image file storage unit is configured to store, as the image file, a series of images in which horizontal symmetry of the positions of the moving object contained in the respective images that have been detected by the moving position detection unit is higher, out of the first series of images and the second series of images.