Claims
- 1. An image processing apparatus comprising:a pick-up unit for picking-up a subject; a temporal storage unit for temporarily storing plural sets of image information picked up by said pick-up unit during plural predetermined time periods; a display unit for displaying the plural sets of image information stored in said temporal storage unit and image information from said pick-up unit, said display unit being constituted so that a subject views the display unit during image pick-up; a control unit for performing control to cause said temporal storage unit to store the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject picked up by said pick-up unit during the predetermined time periods, and to cause said display unit to display the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in said temporal storage unit discriminatively from the image information from said pick-up unit; and a selector unit for selecting at least one of the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in said temporal storage unit.
- 2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said temporal storage unit stores the image information for each of the predetermined time periods.
- 3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said temporal storage unit stores the plural image information in the plural predetermined time periods in response to a timing at which a predetermined instruction is input.
- 4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said temporal storage unit stores the plural image information at a predetermined time after the predetermined instruction is input.
- 5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined instruction is performed by a manual input.
- 6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display unit simultaneously displays the plural image information stored in said temporal storage unit.
- 7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a detector unit for detecting money, anda controller unit for enabling an operation of the image processing apparatus in accordance with a detection by said detector unit.
- 8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said display unit is constructed such that said subject can see the plural image information during image pick-up.
- 9. An image processing method comprising:an image pick-up step, of picking up a subject in plural sets of predetermined time periods; a temporal storage step, of temporarily storing the picked up plural sets of image information in a temporal storage unit; a display step, of displaying the plural sets of image information stored in the temporal storage unit and image information from the pick-up unit, said display step being performed such that the subject views a display during image pick-up; a control step, of performing control to cause the temporal storage unit to store the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject picked up by the pick-up unit during the predetermined time periods, and to cause the display unit to display the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the temporal storage unit discriminatively from the image information from the pick-up unit; and a selection step, of selecting at least one of the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the temporal storage unit.
- 10. The image processing method according to claim 9, wherein the temporal storage unit stores the plural image information for each predetermined time period.
- 11. The image processing method according to claim 10, wherein the temporal storage unit stores the plural image information in the plural predetermined time periods in response to a timing at which a predetermined instruction is input.
- 12. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein said temporal storage step stores the plural image information at a predetermined time after the predetermined instruction is input.
- 13. The image processing method according to claim 11, wherein the predetermined instruction is performed by a manual input.
- 14. The image processing method according to claim 9, further comprising a recording step, of recording at least one of the plural sets of image information selected in said selection step on a recording medium.
- 15. The image processing method according to claim 9, wherein, in said display step, the plural image information stored in the temporal storage unit is simultaneously displayed.
- 16. The image processing method according to claim 9, further comprising a detecting step, of detecting money, anda step of enabling an operation of image processing in accordance with a detection performed in said detecting step.
- 17. The image processing method according to claim 9, wherein said display step includes displaying such that the subject can see the plural image information during image pick-up.
- 18. A storage medium in which contents of a control operation are read by an image processing apparatus, the image processing apparatus including:a pick-up unit for picking up a subject; a temporal storage unit for temporarily storing plural sets of image information; and a display unit for displaying the plural sets of image information stored in the temporal storage unit and image information from the pick-up unit, the display unit being constituted so that the subject views the display during image pick-up; and a control unit for performing a control operation to cause the temporal storage unit to store the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject picked up by the pick-up unit during the predetermined time periods, and to cause the display unit to display the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the temporal storage unit discriminatively from the image information from the pick-up unit; the contents of the control operation comprising: an image pick-up step, of picking-up the subject by means of the pick-up unit in plural sets of predetermined time periods; a temporal storage step, of temporarily storing in the temporal storage unit the plural sets of image information picked up by the pick-up unit; and a selecting step, of selecting at least one of the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the temporal storage unit.
- 19. The storage medium according to claim 18, wherein said temporal storage step includes storing the plural image information for each predetermined time period.
- 20. The storage medium according to claim 18, wherein said temporal storage step includes storing the plural image information in the plural predetermined time periods in response to a timing at which a predetermined instruction is input.
- 21. The storage medium according to claim 20, wherein said temporal storage step includes storing the image information at a predetermined time after the predetermined instruction is input.
- 22. The storage medium according to claim 20, wherein the predetermined instruction is performed by manual input.
- 23. The storage medium according to claim 18, wherein the image processing apparatus further includes a recorder unit for recording the plural sets of image information on a recording medium, andsaid contents of the control operation further comprises a recording step, of recording the selected sets of image information on a recording medium, using the recording unit.
- 24. The storage medium according to claim 18, the plural sets of image information stored in the temporal storage unit are simultaneously displayed.
- 25. The storage medium according to claim 18, further comprising a step of detecting money, anda step of enabling an operation of image processing in accordance with the detection of the money.
- 26. The storage medium according to claim 18, wherein the display unit is constructed such that the subject views the plural image information during image pick-up.
- 27. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a recorder unit for recording the at least one of the plural image information selected by said selector unit on a recording medium.
- 28. The image processing method according to claim 14, wherein said recording step is performed by printing.
- 29. The storage medium according to claim 23, wherein said recording step includes performing printing.
- 30. The image processing apparatus according to claim 27, wherein said recorder unit performs printing.
- 31. A control method of an image processing apparatus, said apparatus comprising a pick-up unit for picking up a subject and a storage unit for storing plural sets of image information picked up by said pick-up unit during plural predetermined time periods and a display unit for displaying the plural sets of image information stored in the storage unit and image information from the pick-up unit, the display unit being constituted so that a subject views the display unit during image pick-up, said method comprising:a storage step, of storing the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and picked up by the pick-up unit during the plural predetermined time periods to the storage unit; a display step, of displaying the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the storage unit on the display unit discriminatively from the image information from the pick-up unit; and a selecting step, of causing to select at least one of the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and stored in the storage unit.
- 32. The control method according to claim 31, wherein the storage unit stores the plural sets of image information for each predetermined time period.
- 33. The control method according to claim 32, wherein the storage unit stores the plural sets of image information in the plural predetermined time periods in response to a timing at which a predetermined instruction is input.
- 34. The control method according to claim 33, wherein the storage unit includes storing the plural sets of image information at a predetermined time after the predetermined instruction is input.
- 35. The control method according to claim 33, wherein the predetermined instruction is performed by a manual input.
- 36. The control method according to claim 31, further comprising a recording step, of recording the at least one of the plural sets of image information corresponding to the same subject and selected, on a recording medium.
- 37. The control method according to claim 31, wherein the display unit displays the plural sets of image information stored in the storage unit.
- 38. The control method according to claim 31, further comprising a detection step, of detecting money, and an enabling step, of enabling an operation of image processing in accordance with a detection performed in said detecting step.
- 39. The control method according to claim 31, wherein the display unit displays the image in a manner that the subject can see the plural sets of image information during image pick-up.
- 40. The control method according to claim 36, wherein said recording step is performed by printing.
Priority Claims (5)
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a divisional of Ser. No. 08/958,742, filed Oct. 27, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,147,704, which was a continuation of Ser. No. 08/732,915, filed Oct. 17, 1996, now abandoned, which was a divisional of Ser. No. 08/339,880, filed Nov. 14, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,617,138, which was a continuation of Ser. No. 08/026,181, filed Mar. 1, 1993, now abandoned, which was a divisional of Ser. No. 07/788,302, filed Nov. 5, 1991, now abandoned.
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