Operation screen generating apparatus, printing apparatus, imaging apparatus, operation screen generating method, and computer program

• US 20070285681A1
• Filed: 06/21/2007
• Published: 12/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Hayakawa, Keitaro
• Granted Patent: US 8,693,044 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393

Abstract

An operation screen generating apparatus includes: an image-in-work-screen generating unit that displays a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation; and an image-in-confirmation-screen generating unit that displays in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line.

Claims

1. An operation screen generating apparatus comprising:

an image-in-work-screen generating unit that displays a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation; and

an image-in-confirmation-screen generating unit that displays in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line.

2. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the confirmation screen is arranged to correspond to a plurality of the outer edge positions.

3. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the confirmation screen is arranged on an outer side of a position corresponding thereto among outer edges forming the work screen.

4. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a slider bar representing a positional relation of the subject image corresponding to the confirmation screen is displayed between the work screen and the confirmation screen.

5. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the operation screen generating apparatus variably controls a magnification of the confirmation screen in association with adjustment of length of the slider bar.

6. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein gauges representing display dimensions are displayed on the work screen and the confirmation screen, respectively.

7. An operation screen generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when an outer edge of the subject image and an outer edge of the work screen coincide with each other, display of the confirmation screen corresponding to the outer edge or the reference line corresponding to the outer edge is switched to a highlight format.

8. A printing apparatus comprising:

an operation input unit;

a display device;

a printing device that forms an image on a print sheet;

an image-in-work-screen generating unit that displays a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation;

an image-in-confirmation-screen generating unit that displays in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line; and

a print-data generating unit that supplies, on condition that execution of printing is instructed, print data corresponding to the subject image in the work screen to the printing device.

9. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging device;

an operation input unit;

a display device;

an interface that outputs print data to a printing device;

an image-in-work-screen generating unit that displays a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation;

an image-in-confirmation-screen generating unit that displays in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line; and

a print-data generating unit that supplies, on condition that execution of printing is instructed, print data corresponding to the subject image in the work screen to the printing device.

10. An operation screen generating method comprising the steps of:

displaying a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation; and

displaying in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line.

11. A computer program for causing a computer that processes image data to execute:

processing for displaying a subject image on a work screen, which is displayed at an aspect ratio same as that of a print area, in a display position and at a display magnification designated by user operation; and

processing for displaying in enlargement, on a confirmation screen prepared separately from the work screen, a reference line representing an outer edge position of the work screen and a subject image located near an outside and an inside of the reference line.