DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING TAKEN IMAGE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING TAKEN IMAGE

• US 20090284636A1
• Filed: 03/02/2006
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hatano, Kouji
• Application Number:
  US12/096,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20090284636A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/333.110
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders

Abstract

A camera-equipped mobile telephone terminal with which a portion that the user can not view can be confirmed with simple operation. In the mobile telephone terminal (1), when the user operates an operation member, operation detection means (2) detects that display of image data is operated. When the operation detection means (2) detects the start of operation, imaging means (3) images an object and creates image data. During a period from when the start of the operation is detected until the end of the operation is detected, display means (4) holds display of the image data created by the imaging means (3) from the time at which the operation detection means (2) detects the start of the operation until the time at which the operation detection means detects the end of the operation. When the operation detection means (2) detects the end of the operation, the display means (4) ends the display of the image data.

Claims

1. A photographed image display apparatus comprising:

an operation detection section that detects an operation of displaying image data by an action upon an operator by a user;

an photographing section that takes a photograph of a photographing object and generates image data; and

a display section that holds a display of the image data generated by the photographing section after the operation detection section detects a start of the operation, until an end of the operation is detected, and finishes the display of the image data when the operation detection section detects the end of the operation.

2. The photographed image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operator comprises a button and detects a start of the operation by an act of pressing the button by the user and detects an end of the operation by an act of releasing the pressed button by the user.

3. The photographed image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the display section displays the image data rotated in a predetermined direction.

4. The photographed image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation detection section comprises a plurality of operators and the display section displays the image data rotated in a predetermined direction associated with each of the operators.

5. The photographed image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image saving section that saves the image data; and

an photographing notifying section that notifies to the surrounding that a photograph is being taken, based on the detection by the operation detection section,

wherein the photographing notifying section performs different notifying operations depending on whether the image saving section saves the image data or the image saving section does not save the image data.

6. The photographed image display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein:

the image saving section comprises a save switch section that switches between saving and not saving the image data; and

the photographing notifying section issue a notification when the save switch section is switched so as to save the image data, and does not issue a notification when the save switch section is switched so as not to save the image data.

7. A photographed image display method comprising:

a first step of detecting an operation of displaying image data by an action on an operator by the user;

a second step of taking a photograph of a photographing object and generating image data;

a third step of holding a display of the image data generated when a start of the operation is detected;

a fourth step of detecting an end of the operation; and

a fifth step of finishing the display of the image data when the end of the operation is detected.

8. The photographed image display method according to claim 7, wherein, in the second step, the image data is displayed rotated in a predetermined direction.

9. The photographed image display method according to claim 7, wherein, in the second step, the image data is displayed rotated in a predetermined direction associated with each operator.