JP2011118781A - Image output device - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide an image output device capable of outputting an image in the form of a mini-fashion magazine so as to simulate the feeling of a model appearing in a fashion magazine or an advertisement magazine.
An image output device that edits and prints a captured player image, a template configured by superimposing a plurality of image layers, and which image layer corresponds to the captured image. A storage means for storing designated data, an imaging means for photographing a player, a display means, an image generation means, and a control means. The control means controls imaging, and a player image to be captured On the other hand, a position to be arranged is specified based on the data, a template is read from the storage means, and an image of an image layer corresponding to the specified position among a plurality of image layers, and a player image to be captured are obtained. The template is updated by replacement, and the updated template is displayed on the display means as an image output for the player.
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Description

  The present invention relates to an image output apparatus. In particular, the present invention relates to an image output apparatus that edits and arranges an image obtained by capturing a player in a predetermined layout and outputs the image.

  2. Description of the Related Art Image printing apparatuses that are placed in amusement facilities and the like, take images of players, and output them as thumbnails on a single sheet of paper are widely used in various forms.

  Among them, there is a game device or an image output device that synthesizes and outputs a player's imaging data from a plurality of background images prepared in advance to a background image selected by the player.

  Many of the images provided by the image output apparatus arrange a plurality of frames on a single sheet of paper, and arrange one or a plurality of photographed images on each frame.

  Alternatively, a photo album production service is known in which a plurality of images sent through a network are printed at a position specified by a user in a predetermined template, and a plurality of pages are bound and provided to the user in a book format. .

  Here, as a conventional technique related to the image output apparatus, there is an invention described in Patent Literature 1-5.

  The invention described in Patent Document 1 proposes an image extraction device for the purpose of finishing a photographed person image into a photograph that is easy to see by trimming.

  The invention described in Patent Document 2 sets a predetermined condition from an image obtained by photographing a plurality of objects, performs trimming on the plurality of objects, and converts the trimmed image according to an output format, for example, The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus that lays out frames equally divided according to the number of images.

  Furthermore, the invention described in Patent Document 3 relates to an image output device that lays out a plurality of captured images in a template based on the orientation of an imaging object so that a preferred orientation is obtained.

  Further, Patent Literature 4 discloses an apparatus that outputs a sheet on which a photographic image obtained by combining a background image prepared in the apparatus for each of a plurality of frames and a player image appropriately captured is printed. Further, the sheet has a perforation and a round hole for binding so that the file can be filed in a system notebook or the like.

  The invention described in Patent Document 5 is related to the invention described in Patent Document 4, and relates to an amusement device that synthesizes and outputs a player's photographed image on a framed comic image.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-96486 JP 2005-332244 A JP 2006-287917 A Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-315664 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-95312

  Therefore, in view of the background of the above-described prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a mini-fashion magazine in order to make the user feel like a model appearing in a fashion magazine or an advertisement magazine in an image output device as one form of a game device. An object of the present invention is to provide an image output device capable of outputting an image in the form of a wind.

A first aspect according to the present invention for achieving the above object is an image output device for editing and printing out a captured player image,
An image output device for editing and printing out a captured player image,
A layout template configured by superimposing a plurality of image layers, and storage means for storing a script for designating which image layer of the plurality of image layers corresponds to the captured player image;
An imaging means for capturing an image of the player;
Image display means;
Image generating means for displaying on the image display means;
Having a control means for performing processing by executing a program;
The control means includes
Controlling the imaging of the player image by the imaging means,
For the player image captured by the imaging means, in the plurality of image layers, specify an image layer to be arranged based on the script,
The template of the layout is read from the storage means, and the template is updated by replacing the image of the specified image layer and the captured player image among a plurality of image layers constituting the layout, and ,
The image generation means causes the image display means to display the updated template as an image output for the player.

  In the present invention, by replacing a captured player image specified according to a layout template configured by superimposing a plurality of image layers with an image of a corresponding image layer of the plurality of image layers. The contents of the image output can be easily changed.

1 is an external view of a configuration example of an image output device (hereinafter referred to as a game device as appropriate) as a game device to which the present invention is applied. FIG. 2 is a circuit configuration block diagram built in the game device as the image output device of FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows an example of the layout of the image of the page printed. It is a figure explaining the layer structure of a layout image. It is a figure which shows the order of the layer of each elementary image in FIG. 4A. It is a figure which shows the initial operation | movement flow of an image output device when the image output device has a pseudo fortune-telling game function. It is a figure which shows one Example flow of a fortune-telling process. It is a processing flow for selecting a magazine and an article. It is a figure which shows the processing flow of the image shooting for cover screens. It is a figure which shows the processing flow which image | photographs the personal image published on each page. It is a figure which shows the processing flow which image | photographs the image published on a back cover. It is a figure which shows the processing flow which specifies a player's face position. It is a figure which shows the example of a screen displayed on a display means. It is a figure which shows the expansion / contraction trimming process flow. It is a figure which shows the flow which shows the process which detects the face position in case a some player is image | photographed simultaneously. It is a figure explaining how to determine face position coordinates (X, Y) in a plurality of player photographs. It is an example of an image obtained by replacing the layout of a magazine and an article selected by a player with a photographed image of the player and a corresponding catch phrase and article. This is an example of four image data (A, B, C, D) for each page stored and held in the RAM 102. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which four image data (A, B, C, and D) are classified into forms to be printed on one sheet of paper. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing printed paper discharged from an output port 15. FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a multi-magazine-like booklet obtained from the printed paper of FIG. 19.

  Embodiments will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an external view of a configuration example of an image output device (hereinafter referred to as a game device as appropriate) as a game device to which the present invention is applied. As a basic configuration, the game apparatus housing 1 includes a photographic camera 10 having an image sensor such as a CCD and a CMOS, and a display unit 11. The display means 11 can also have a touch panel input function so as to serve as an input interface with the player.

  A counter unit 12 is provided below the display unit 11 of the image output apparatus, and includes a player identification card reading unit 13, a coin receiving unit 14, an output port 15 for printed paper on which images and characters are printed, and the like.

  The player identification card reading means 13 allows the use of a plurality of game devices connected to the network by allowing the player to use the identification card when a game device as an image output device is connected to a network in a play facility, for example. Easy and collective billing processing is possible.

  The coin receiving means 14 is provided for accepting a corresponding game fee when the game device can be used individually.

  From the output port 15 of the image printed paper, a paper printed as a game result according to the present invention, in which an image of a player is edited and arranged in a predetermined layout, is output in a form that enables page configuration in a mini-magazine style. Is done. Such layout and page layout in a mini magazine style will be described in detail later in the related section.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a circuit configuration built in the game apparatus as the image output apparatus of FIG. 1, and basically has the same functional configuration as a computer. A first CPU 100 as a control means for controlling the entire apparatus through the bus line BL, a ROM 101 for storing program and program data used in program execution, a RAM 102 for holding work data during program execution, As the second CPU, an image processing processor 103, a texture memory 104, and a video memory 105 for temporarily storing image data generated by the image processing processor 103 are connected.

  As the second CPU, the image processing processor 103 expands the image data delivered from the first CPU 100 into two-dimensional data, attaches the texture stored in the texture memory 104, and draws it in the video memory 105.

  Further, the image data drawn from the video memory 105 is read at a display repetition cycle, sent to the display means 11 and displayed.

  The display unit 11 has a function of the touch panel 106 as an input unit, and is connected to the bus line BL. The output image displayed on the display unit 11 is printed by the printer 107, and the printed image-printed paper is discharged from the output port 15.

  When a plurality of game devices as image output devices are connected as a network system via a network, the image data is output to the common printer via the interface 108 without providing the printer 107 for each image output device. Anyway.

  Here, the ROM 101 may be a storage unit built in the apparatus or an external storage unit.

  The program stored in the ROM 101 includes an image editing program that is an image processing tool for generating a layout image of an output image according to the present invention, which will be described later, using a layer structure.

  Furthermore, the CPU 100 controls the player's imaging, detects the player's face position in the imaging data, and controls the enlargement / reduction of the player image based on script data that is program data prepared in advance. And an image output control program linked with the image editing program.

  Furthermore, when an image output apparatus executes a game mode in which a pseudo fortune-telling process is performed from an image of a player as an article included in the layout and the result is described, an article generation program for controlling the execution is provided. included.

  Next, a processing procedure in the image output apparatus of the present invention executed according to the image output control program will be described.

  Here, in order to facilitate understanding of the present invention, an example of an image that is finally output will be described first.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a layout template of an image of a page that is printed so as to be a double-page spread left or right page that becomes a mini-magazine format when a sheet of printing paper is folded or a front and back cover. is there.

  Images of models I to VI taking a plurality of poses, model names A and B, catch phrases C and D, and article comments (for example, judgment results of fortune telling games) E and F, title G, etc. An output image is composed of images.

  When actually printing out, the photographed image of the player is replaced at the position of the images I to VI of the model. Furthermore, a plurality of elementary images such as model names A and B, catch phrases C and D, article comments E and F on the model, title G, and the like correspond to the player to be imaged, and script and player input information. On the basis of the above, the CPU 100 selects and determines from those prepared in advance.

  The arrangement positions of the model images I to VI and the respective elementary images in the layout template are specified by a layer structure by the image editing program. Such layer structure data is stored in the ROM 101 as program data.

  FIG. 4A is a diagram for explaining the layer structure of the layout image. FIG. 4B is a diagram showing the order of layers of each elementary image in FIG. 4A.

  The layer structure forms a single image by overlapping a plurality of transparent slides each having only a corresponding elementary image.

  In FIG. 4B, the numerical value surrounded by a square indicates the slide of the layer having the corresponding elementary image in FIG. 4A, and the slides are overlapped from below to above.

  For example, the background image 7 is positioned in the lowest layer. Next, a player's elementary image 1 that is a photographed image, for example, an elementary image 5 that displays text information of a player's fortune-telling diagnosis result in a fortune-telling game, and a subheading elementary image 4 of the same fortune-telling diagnosis result are sequentially superimposed.

Furthermore, the catch copy original image 2 is overlaid, and the elementary image 6 representing the title is overlaid on the top layer.

  As described above, the original image of each layer is drawn on the corresponding slide that can be seen through. Therefore, when these layers are overlapped, they can be expressed as a single image.

  Further, when the image of any one of the plurality of layers is replaced, only the replaced image is changed.

  The present invention prepares a plurality of layout data corresponding to each page of a magazine format of an image in such a layer structure in the ROM 101, and replaces an image (model image) at a predetermined position of the layout with a photographed image of the player. This makes it possible for a player to experience a simulated experience as a model published in a fashion magazine, a commercial booklet, or the like.

  The text information of the player's fortune-telling diagnosis result and the subheadings of the fortune-telling diagnosis result displayed based on the layout template are also prepared corresponding to the fortune-telling result and are prepared as program data in the ROM 101. Therefore, text information and subheading images corresponding to the fortune-telling result information are read out and pasted on the template layer image corresponding to a predetermined elementary image position.

  Here, the specification of the layer and the replacement of the image will be specifically described.

  In the position of the model image (Fig. 3, I-VI), from the description of the script as the program data (READ_LAYER), "Which photo to use", and from (MAKE_LAYER) "Which layer to replace" The CPU 100 reads the image and replaces and updates the image in the template.

  For catch copy (Fig. 3, C, D), "Which image to use" is read from the script description (READ_LAYER), and "Which layer to replace" from (MAKE_LAYER), and the image in the template is replaced. .

  For names (Figs. 3, A, B) and article data (Figs. 3, E, F), read "Which layer to replace" from (MAKE_LAYER), and from "FIT_FONT", "Which font to use" , (FIT_SIZE) reads “Font size, (FIT_RGB) reads“ Font color ”, (FIT_ARRANGE) reads“ Left-justified, centered, right-justified ”, (FIT_WRITE) reads“ What kind of sentence ” The template is updated based on the description of the script with the name entered by the player.

  FIG. 5 is an initial operation flow of the image output device when the image output device has a pseudo fortune-telling game function, and the execution is controlled by the CPU 100. When the pseudo fortune-telling game function is executed by another game device connected to the network and the game result is acquired by the image output device, the intro process in FIG. 5 is executed by the other game device. You may do it.

  In FIG. 5, the player can use the game apparatus to which the present invention is applied, that is, the player identification card reading means 13 reads the player identification card or the coin receiving means 14 receives a predetermined amount of coins. The intro process starts when it is inserted.

  When the initial operation (intro) flow starts, an intro effect screen is displayed on the display means 11 (step S51). As an effect screen, a moving image that interests an appropriate player is displayed.

  Next, a display requesting the player to input the number of players participating in the game is performed on the display means 11 (step S52). In response to the number input display, the player sequentially inputs names corresponding to the number of players (steps S53 and S54).

  When the names of the players for the number of players are input (step S54, YES), the front faces of the participating players are simultaneously photographed and registered (steps S55, S56).

  Using the player's front face registered in this way, each player's face is recognized and, as an example, a fortune-telling process for determining the personality from the player's personality is executed.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an example of such fortune-telling process, which is executed by the CPU 100. When the process starts (step S60), face authentication is performed. In the face authentication process, first, a face image of a registered player (for example, image A displayed on the upper right in FIG. 6) is extracted (step S61).

  Next, face detection is performed from the extracted image using a face recognition technique (step S62). Various techniques for performing face detection have already been introduced. In the embodiment, any face detection technique may be applied. In the detected face image, eyes and mouth are specified as an example (step S63). A technique for identifying eyes and mouth in the detected face image is also known as a feature point detection technique in the face detection technique.

  On the other hand, for each gender, or for both genders, as an embodiment, seven types of mouth patterns and seven types of eye patterns are used, and 49 types of pattern data obtained by combining them are stored in the ROM 101, and the human race It is stored as academic classification database DS.

  Therefore, the CPU 100 compares the eye and mouth pattern specified in step S63 with the 49 types of pattern data of the anthropology classification database DS sequentially read from the ROM 101, and narrows down to one approximate classification (step S64).

  Further, personality determination article (text) data corresponding to each of the 49 types of pattern data is registered in the ROM 101 for each genre selected by article selection described later.

  As a result, the CPU 100 reads the personality determination article corresponding to the one classification narrowed down in step S64 from the ROM 101 (step S65). The personality determination article read in this way is pasted to a predetermined position (layer) of the layout as described later (step S66).

  FIG. 7 is a processing flow for selecting a magazine and an article. When the magazine selection process is started under the control of the CPU 100, an effect screen is displayed (step S70). Next, a message screen for instructing the player to select a magazine is displayed (step S71).

  In response to this, the player selects an arbitrary one from the magazine list displayed on the display means 11, for example, four kinds of magazines (step S72). Further, for an article displaying the result of fortune telling, for example, one of two kinds of fortune telling diagnoses, a love diagnosis and a personality diagnosis is selected (step S73).

  Then, it shifts to production screen selection and a magazine selection process is complete | finished.

  FIG. 8 is a processing flow of image capturing for the cover screen.

  When the cover photographing process is started, the CPU 100 displays a message for instructing to select a magazine type on the display unit 11 (step S80).

  In cover shooting, a setting is made in which all participating players take a specified number of images, for example, three images in the same form.

  Therefore, the CPU 100 displays a shooting screen for the player until the designated number of images has been shot (step S81, YES), and the player confirms and registers this (step S83). Next, when the designated number of three images have been shot, the player selects an arbitrary image from the three shot images (step S84).

  Thereafter, the CPU 100 displays a screen for guiding the player to individual shooting (step S85).

  When the cover shooting is completed, the process proceeds to the personal shooting process for the number of photos of the player posted on the basis of a predetermined layout.

  FIG. 9 is a processing flow for photographing a personal image posted on each page.

  The CPU 100 causes the display means 11 to display a screen for displaying a message for performing personal shooting for the player (step S90).

  In accordance with this display message, each player of the number of participants shoots the number of photos of the player (specified number) posted on the basis of a predetermined layout in order (step S91). Each time shooting is performed, the displayed shooting screen (step S92) is confirmed and a shot image is registered (step S93).

  When the designated number of shots for one player is completed, a message is displayed on the screen to guide the shooting for the next player (step S95). When shooting of all participating players is completed (step S94, YES), the player is guided to image shooting for the back cover (step S96).

  FIG. 10 is a processing flow for photographing an image posted on the back cover.

  The CPU 100 causes the display unit 11 to display a message for taking an image posted on the back cover (step S100).

  The back cover is photographed only once, as an example, for all participating players. Therefore, the shooting screen is displayed (step S101), a picture is taken and registered (step S102).

  Here, in order to replace the player's image shot in each shooting flow (FIGS. 7 to 10) with the model image of the corresponding layer of the layout, it is made to correspond to the position and size of the corresponding model image. is required.

  FIG. 11 to FIG. 13 are flowcharts of a shooting example of one player image arranged at the position indicated by the layout template. The player recognizes the player's face and uses the recognized face position as a reference for the layout position. Trimming processing is performed so as to correspond to the size to be attached to.

  FIG. 11 is a processing flow for recognizing the player's face position.

  The player changes the posture by imitating the movement of the effect of the model displayed on the display means 11. FIG. 12 is an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 11. A live image 90 of the player to be imaged is displayed in the center. Around the live image 90, a moving image 91 of a plurality of models in a presentation posture is displayed. Thereby, the player can make his live image 90 resemble the movement of the moving image 91 of the model.

  Returning to FIG. 11, the CPU 100 uses a known processing method similar to the processing for recognizing the player's face from the front images taken in FIGS. 5 and 6 for the previous fortune-telling game process. The face position in (Step S110) is recognized (Step S111-1).

  When the face position cannot be recognized from the photographed photograph of the player (step S111-1, NO), the face position coordinates are recognized from the live image 90 (step S111-2). If the face cannot be recognized even with the live image 90 (step S111-2, NO), a dummy variable (script face position coordinates) is read from a script prepared in advance as program data and used (step S111-3). ).

  The player's face position coordinates (X, Y) in the photographed player photo are specified by any one of the methods described above (step S112). The face position coordinate (X, Y) is defined as the center of the circumscribed rectangle 20 of the recognized face.

  Next, the process proceeds to enlargement / reduction trimming processing. FIG. 13 is an enlargement / reduction trimming process flow.

  In the enlargement / reduction trimming process flow shown in FIG. 13, the CPU 100 reads the circumscribed rectangle trimming range from the script (step S130).

  In other words, the circumscribed rectangle trimming range is performed by either method I or II. In the method of step S130-I, coordinates (X + x1, Y + y1) that are x1 in the horizontal direction (X direction) and y1 in the vertical direction from the upper left corner of the circumscribed rectangle 20 with the face position coordinate (X, Y) as the center. A trimming range is a range determined by coordinates (X + x2, Y + y2) that are x2 in the horizontal direction (X direction) and y2 in the vertical direction from the lower right corner of the circumscribed rectangle 20 of the face.

  Further, the method of step S130-II includes coordinates (X + x1, Y + y1) separated from the face position coordinate (X, Y) point of the center of the face by x1 in the horizontal direction (X direction) and y1 in the vertical direction (Y direction). A range determined by coordinates (X + x2, Y + y2) away from the face position coordinate (X, Y) point by x2 in the horizontal direction (X direction) and y2 in the vertical direction is defined as a trimming range.

Note that, in the method of step S130-I, the face range is secured by the circumscribed rectangle 20 of the face as compared to step S130-II, so there is no fear that a part of the face will not be included by trimming.
A trimmed image is obtained based on the trimming range thus obtained (step S131).

  If the captured image is appropriate, the next enlargement / reduction process can be performed without performing the trimming process in steps S130 to S131.

  The CPU 100 reads the enlargement / reduction target layer from the image editing program based on the script (step S132). Further, a command for adjusting the size of the enlargement / reduction target layer image is read from the script (step S133).

  In accordance with this size matching command, the CPU 100 determines an enlargement / reduction value for the trimmed image (step S134). At the same time, the non-display portion is masked by the image editing program (step S135).

  Through the processes in steps S134 and 135, an enlarged / reduced image of the player to be replaced in the target layer is obtained.

  Here, FIG. 11 is a flow for detecting a face position in a photographed image of one player, but FIG. 14 is a flow showing a process for detecting a face position when a plurality of players are photographed simultaneously. It is.

  FIG. 14 shows an example in which two players A and B are photographed as an example. When a photograph is obtained (step S140), the face positions of the two players are recognized (step S141). -1). As the method of recognizing the face position, the various known methods described above can be used as described above with reference to FIG.

  When the face position cannot be recognized from the photographed photograph of the player (step S141-1, NO), the face position is recognized from the live images of the two players A and B (step S141-2). If the face cannot be recognized even with a live image (step S141-2, NO), a dummy variable is read from a script prepared in advance as program data and used (step S141-3).

  The player's face position coordinates (X, Y) in the two photographed player pictures are specified by any one of the methods described above (step S112). Here, the method of determining the face position coordinates (X, Y) is obtained as follows, unlike the case where the number of players obtained in FIG. 8 is one.

  That is, FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining how to determine the face position coordinates (X, Y) in a plurality of player photographs.

  First, rectangles 20A and 20B circumscribing the faces of a plurality of (two) players are obtained by face recognition processing as described in FIG.

  Further, a rectangle 20 circumscribing these circumscribed rectangles 20A and 20B is obtained, and this center is set as the player's face position coordinates (X, Y) (step S142).

  The enlargement / reduction trimming process based on the circumscribed rectangle 20 and the player's face position coordinates (X, Y) is the same as that described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 16 shows an image obtained by replacing and updating the template of the magazine and article layout (for example, the layout of FIG. 3) selected by the player with the photographed image of the player and the corresponding catch phrase and article by the above processing. This is an example, and this is held in the RAM 102.

  FIG. 17 is an example of four image data (A, B, C, D) for each page stored and held in the RAM 102.

  The CPU 100 arranges these four image data (A, B, C, D) in a form to be printed on one sheet as shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 18, images (A, B, C, D) respectively correspond to the image data (A, B, C, D) of FIG. 17 and 18, the image data (A) is the front and back cover pages (A), and the image data (B, C, D) is the content pages (B, C, D).

  As shown in FIG. 18, the printed paper on which each image is arranged, printed, and discharged from the output port 15 can be folded into eight pages by the player as shown in FIG. 19. That is, in FIG. 19, image data (A) is printed on pages (A-1) and (A-2) on a single sheet, and image data (B) is (B-1) (B-2). The image data (C) is printed on the pages (C-1) and (C-2), and the image data (D) is printed on the pages (D-1) and (D-2). The

  In FIG. 19, a slit portion (indicated by a thick line) 16 is formed so that the upper end portions of (A-2), (B-1), (D-1), and (C-2) are separated at the center portion. Is formed. Further, a perforation may be formed as a mountain fold portion 17 indicated by a solid line and a valley fold portion 18 indicated by a dotted line.

  In FIG. 20, a multi-page booklet in a mini-magazine style is obtained by carrying out mountain folding and valley folding in this way.

  As described in detail above, a mini-magazine-style booklet on which a picture of the player is posted can be output to the player as a game result. By changing the format of the output image to a fashion magazine style that includes the player's own photos and articles, and by updating the layout on a weekly or monthly basis, the player can regularly create new mini-magazines. Therefore, it can be expected that the use request of the image output device as a game device will continue, and it will greatly contribute to the industry.

1 Game device housing
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Shooting camera 11 Display means 12 Counter part 13 Player identification card reading means 14 Coin receiving means 15 Output port BL Bus line 90 Gamer's live image 91 Model moving image 100 1st CPU
101 ROM
102 RAM
103 Image Generation Processor 104 Texture Memory 105 Video Memory 106 Touch Panel 107 Printer 108 Interface

Claims (7)

An image output device for editing and printing out a captured player image,
A layout template configured by superimposing a plurality of image layers, and storage means for storing a script for designating which image layer of the plurality of image layers corresponds to the captured player image;
An imaging means for capturing an image of the player;
Image display means;
Image generating means for displaying on the image display means;
Having a control means for performing processing by executing a program;
The control means includes
Controlling the imaging of the player image by the imaging means,
For the player image captured by the imaging means, in the plurality of image layers, specify an image layer to be arranged based on the script,
The template of the layout is read from the storage means, and the template is updated by replacing the image of the specified image layer and the captured player image among a plurality of image layers constituting the layout, and ,
The image generation means causes the image display means to display the updated template as an image output for the player.
An image output apparatus characterized by that. In claim 1,
Furthermore, it has a printing means for printing an image displayed on the image display means,
The control means generates an image having a plurality of spread pages on one sheet of paper for each image displayed on the image display means on the image generation means.
Causing the printing means to print the images for the plurality of pages on the one sheet of paper;
An image output apparatus characterized by that. In claim 2,
An image output characterized in that the sheet of paper has a rectangular shape, is folded in half in the short side direction, and is folded in four in the longitudinal direction so as to form a three-page spread, a front cover, and a back cover. apparatus. In claim 1,
The control means detects a face position in a player image imaged by the imaging means,
Using the detected face position as a reference, trimming the image data within a predetermined range based on the script data as valid,
Further, the trimmed player image is enlarged or reduced based on the script data so as to match the image size of the image layer replaced with the player image.
An image output apparatus characterized by that. In claim 4,
When there are a plurality of player images picked up by the image pickup means, the trimming is performed on the center position of a circumscribed rectangle in which the outlines surrounding the respective face positions detected corresponding to the faces of the respective players are included. An image output apparatus having a face position as a reference for performing. In claim 1,
As a layout template stored in the storage means, further having a plurality of text data prepared in advance,
The control means selects any one of the plurality of text data corresponding to input information input by the player, and sends the image generation means to the image generation means together with the previous player's imaging data. Update the template by replacing it with text data,
An image output apparatus characterized by that. In claim 1,
As a layout template stored in the storage means, further having a plurality of text data prepared in advance,
The control means selects any one of the plurality of text data corresponding to a game result previously executed for the player, and the image generation means is selected together with the image data of the player. Replacing the text data with the text data of the image layer to update the template,
An image output apparatus characterized by that.