Image processing apparatus, display apparatus with touch panel, image processing method and computer program

• US 20060274067A1
• Filed: 08/16/2006
• Published: 12/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hideo Hidai
• Original Assignee: Hideo Hidai
• Inventors: Hidai, Hideo
• Granted Patent: US 7,423,654 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/441
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0423 using sweeping light beams, e.g. using rotating or vibrating mirror
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An image processing apparatus comprises: a boundary line designating unit which designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a plurality of regions; and a region selecting unit which selects either one of the inside and the outside of the boundary line designated by the boundary line designator as a region to be processed in which an image is to be processed. The boundary line designating unit designates a region surrounded by a freehand line input via an inputting unit. As a result, it is possible to easily and accurately designate a region which a user desires to subject to an image processing, so as to readily subject the desired region to the image processing.

Claims

1-17. -17. (canceled)

18. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a boundary line designating unit that designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a first selectable region and a second selectable region, the first selectable region being a region to be processed inside the boundary line and the second selectable region being a region not to be processed outside the boundary line;

an input receiving unit that receives an input for a position of the boundary line which a user designates arbitrarily irrespective of a position of an image displayed on the screen;

a display position detecting unit that detects the image displayed on the boundary line designated by the boundary line designating unit, wherein

when the display position detecting unit detects the image displayed on the boundary line, a part of the image displayed on the boundary line, which is excluded from the region to be processed, is included in the region to be processed.

19. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a boundary line designating unit that designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a first selectable region and a second selectable region, the first selectable region being a region to be processed inside the boundary line and the second selectable region being a region not to be processed outside the boundary line;

an input receiving unit that receives an input for a position of the boundary line which a user designates arbitrarily irrespective of a position of an image displayed on the screen;

a display position detecting unit that detects the image displayed on the boundary line designated by the boundary line designating unit, wherein

when the display position detecting unit detects the image displayed on the boundary line, a part of the image displayed on the boundary line, which is included in the region to be processed, is excluded from the region to be processed.

20. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a boundary line designating unit that designates a boundary line for dividing a screen into a first selectable region inside the boundary line and a second selectable region outside the boundary region, the first and the second selectable regions including respectively at least one image to be processed;

a region selecting unit that allows a user to arbitrarily select either one of the first or second selectable regions designated by the boundary line designating unit as a region in which the at least one image is to be processed;

an input receiving unit that receives an input for a position of the boundary line that the user designates arbitrarily irrespective of a position of the at least one image displayed on the screen;

a display position detecting unit that detects the at least one image displayed on the boundary line designated by the boundary line designating unit, wherein

when the display position detecting unit detects the at least one image displayed on the boundary line, the region selecting unit excludes a part of the at least one image, which is included in the region to be processed, from the region to be processed.