Method for generating a sound series of photographs and apparatus for the generating and reproducing such sound series
View Patent ↗The present invention relates to a method for creation of a sound series of photographs. A sound series is produced by a camera and is audible to the user of the device. At various instants of the sound series, the user takes photographs and the device records the instant when the photograph was taken. A table is created associating each photograph with the instant of the sequence when it was taken. The sound sequence terminates then ending the series of photograph takes. Then, the photographs are assembled to form a single panoramic image, a part of the panoramic image is then displayed by an animation. The panoramic image thus created, the sound sequence and the table are assembled to form a panoramic sound image. During the reproduction of the panoramic sound image, each photograph is displayed at the instant associated by the table.
1. A method for reproducing a panoramic sound image, comprising the following steps:
recording by a camera of a sound sequence such as the ambient sound,
acquiring a plurality of photograph shots and recording of said photographs, each photograph being associated with an instant of the sound sequence during which this photograph is acquired,
creating a single image called “panoramic sound” by assembling a plurality of photographs and by associating said panoramic sound image with the recorded sound sequence, and
reproducing the panoramic sound image consisting in reproducing the recorded sound sequence and displaying a part of the panoramic image thus created, the panoramic image part corresponding to a photograph being displayed at the instant of the sound sequence when this photograph was acquired, wherein during said reproducing, the displayed part of the panoramic image displaces in a continuous movement, speed of movement of the image part displaying successively each photograph depends on the time passing between consecutive takes of two photographs and distance separating these photographs in the panoramic image.
2. The method for reproducing a panoramic sound image according to claim 1 , wherein the recording begins at the introduction of a first command to take a photograph, this first photograph being associated with the start of the sound sequence.
3. The method for reproducing a panoramic sound image according to claim 1 , wherein the recording during which the photographs are taken ends after a determined period without any photographs being taken.
4. The method for reproducing a panoramic sound image according to claim 1 , further comprising:
recording the sound sequence prior to the taking of photographs, and
reproducing the sound sequence during which the photographs are taken, a table associating each photograph with instant of the reproduction of the sound sequence.
5. The method for reproducing a panoramic sound image according to claim 1 , wherein the recording step during which the photographs are taken ends after a determined period without any photographs being taken.
6. A reproduction device comprising
means for displaying images,
means for reproducing sound, and
means for recording an image called “panoramic sound” composed of a sound sequence and an image created by assembling a plurality of photographs,
wherein the means for recording contain a table associating each photograph of the panoramic sound image with an instant of the recorded sound sequence during which this photograph was taken, the display means displaying a part of the recorded panoramic image and the means for reproducing sound reproducing the sound sequence, such that the part of the panoramic sound image corresponding to a photograph is displayed at the instant of the sound sequence where this photograph was acquired,
wherein the image display means reproduces the panoramic sound image displacing the displayed part in a continuous movement, the displacement speed of the part of the panoramic image displaying successively each photograph depends on time passing between consecutive takes of two photographs and distance separating the two photographs in the panoramic image.