Casio Digital Art Frame Turns Images into Artwork
Digital Frames
Casio Digital Art Frame displaying a photo of Mt. Fuji that has been transformed into an oil painting.
Original photo of Mt. Fuji.
Photo of Mt. Fuji with the Pastel effect.
Photo of Mt. Fuji with the Airbrush effect.
Along with four new models in its Exilim camera line, including the High Speed Exilim EX-FH100 and the EX-H15, EX-Z2000 and EX-Z550 with Casio’s unique dynamic photo function, Casio announced at CES in Las Vegas that it “has developed a revolutionary new digital imaging product that transforms ordinary digital photographs into works of fine art.”
Employing a “snapshot-to-painting conversion” function to render digital photographs into custom artistic expressions, Casio’s digital art frame goes beyond displaying favorite photos on its 10.2-inch WSVGA color LCD. The new product is engineered to actually create original photographic artwork from digital images.
“We are excited to announce yet another innovative product with unparalleled features distinctive to Casio,” said Toshiharu Okimuro, chairman of Casio America, Inc. “The digital art frame adds personalization and artistic integrity to your conventional digital photo frame.”
The next-generation digital imaging product converts photographs into artworks by using image recognition and image processing technologies. Users can create up to eight different styles of art from a single photo at the push of a button: water color painting, color pencil sketch, pastel painting, pointillism, air brush, oil painting, Gothic oil painting, and Fauvist oil painting. Facial recognition technology is included to ensure that people’s faces are recognizable in the transformed photos.
Other features include 2GB of internal memory, the ability to display slideshows with automatic playback of photos, art or both, by inserting an SD card, and Casio’s dynamic photo function, which enables the creation of composite moving images. Users can combine moving characters directly on the digital art frame, and with the included art dynamic photo function, they can apply snapshot-to-painting conversion to the dynamic photo images to create moving works of art.
The frame also uses Adobe Flash Lite playback technology, so users can display preset flash content, such as clocks and calendars, to add a decorative accent. They can also download additional content from the Internet, or they can use family photos to make their homemade clocks and calendars, by combining the dynamic photo and snapshot-to-painting conversion functions with images from a Casio camera with high-speed burst shooting.
Casio’s digital art frame, which supports USB and wireless LAN connectivity, will be available in the spring of 2010.