IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE

• US 20090167961A1
• Filed: 07/07/2006
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Hironori, Yamanaka, Yasuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/909,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20090167961A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/718
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

In an information terminal 10 of the present invention, a read unit 34 reads image data to be displayed from a storage device (20, 50). A display 12 displays an image based on the read image data. An image transformation unit 44 applies image transformation to the displayed image. A background image acquisition unit 60 acquires the image data on the image transformed by the image transformation unit 44 and displayed on the display 12, as background image data to be pasted to the background of the display 12.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a read unit which reads image data to be displayed from a storage device;

a display unit which displays an image based on the read image data;

an image transformation unit which applies image transformation to the displayed image; and

a background image acquisition unit which acquires image data on the image transformed by the image transformation unit and displayed on the display unit, as background image data to be pasted to a background of the display unit.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an accepting unit which accepts an instruction from a user, and wherein

the image transformation unit applies such image transformation as zoom-in, zoom-out, rotation, and movement to the displayed image based on the instruction accepted by the accepting unit.

3. A program for making a computer perform the functions of:

reading image data to be displayed from a storage device;

displaying an image on a display unit based on the read image data;

applying image transformation to the displayed image; and

acquiring image data on the image transformed and displayed on the display unit, as background image data to be pasted to a background of the display unit.

4. A computer-readable recording medium containing the program according to claim 3.