IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND IMAGE DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20100125786A1
• Filed: 10/16/2009
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: AKAGAWA, Satoshi, IWASE, Ayako, Furue, Nobuki, OZAWA, Hiroyuki
• Granted Patent: US 8,875,044 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/702
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an image display element, an instruction position detection unit for accepting an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detecting and outputting an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face, a storage unit for storing and holding image data of images, and a display control unit for performing a control for displaying an image in accordance with the stored and held image data on the image display element, in which when the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control unit performs a control for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection unit.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image display element;

instruction position detection means configured to accept an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face;

storage means configured to store and hold image data of a plurality of images; and

display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with the image data stored and held by the storage means on the image display element,

wherein in a case where the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control means performs a control for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control means controls a reduction state of the display image in a manner that a whole image at a scroll reaching point and image parts at a certain ratio or more of the images before and after the image at the scroll reaching point are displayed on the display screen of the display element.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control means controls a reduction state of the display image in a manner that a whole image at a scroll reaching point and whole images before and after the image are display while the image at a scroll reaching point is displayed larger than the images before and after the image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control means controls at least one of a reduction rate of the display image and a scroll amount in accordance with a mode of the continuous movement determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the display control means is at least one of a distance and a speed of the continuous movement on the operation face.

6. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image display element;

instruction position detection means configured to accept an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face;

storage means configured to store and hold image data of a plurality of images; and

display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with the image data stored and held by the storage means on the image display element,

wherein in a case where the user performs an operation of keeping a contact position with respect to the operation face, the display control means performs a control for reducing a display image together with one or more images before and after the display image and displaying the images on a display screen of the image display element in accordance with an operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein in a case where the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control means performs a control for scrolling the display images in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the display control means controls a display mode for the images displayed on the display screen of the display element in accordance with a duration time of the operation of keeping the contact position with respect to the operation face performed by the user.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 6,

wherein the instruction position detection means can detect and output a pressure on the operation face on which an instruction operation is performed by the user, and

wherein the display control means controls a display mode for the images displayed on the display screen of the display element in accordance with the pressure on the instruction position detection means in accordance with the instruction operation on the operation face performed by the user.

10. An image display method comprising the steps of:

accepting an operation input from a user via instruction position detection means provided with an operation face on a display screen of an image display element and configured to accept the instruction operation from the user and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face; and

controlling a display, by display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with image data stored and held in storage means on the image display element, for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means in a case where a continuous movement on the operation face performed by the user is accepted in the accepting step.

11. An image display method comprising the steps of:

accepting an operation input from a user via instruction position detection means provided with an operation face on a display screen of an image display element and configured to accept the instruction operation from the user and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face; and

controlling a display, by display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with image data stored and held in storage means on the image display element, for reducing a display image together with one or more images before and after the display image and displaying the images on a display screen of the image display element in accordance with an operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means in a case where a continuous movement on the operation face performed by the user is accepted in the accepting step.

12. An image display program executed by a computer mounted on an image processing apparatus, the computer executing the steps of:

accepting an operation input from a user via instruction position detection means provided with an operation face on a display screen of an image display element and configured to accept the instruction operation from the user and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face; and

controlling a display, by display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with image data stored and held in storage means on the image display element, for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means in a case where a continuous movement on the operation face performed by the user is accepted in the accepting step.

13. An image display program executed by a computer mounted on an image processing apparatus, the computer executing the steps of:

accepting an operation input from a user via instruction position detection means provided with an operation face on a display screen of an image display element and configured to accept the instruction operation from the user and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face; and

controlling a display, by display control means configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with image data stored and held in storage means on the image display element, for reducing a display image together with one or more images before and after the display image and displaying the images on a display screen of the image display element in accordance with an operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection means in a case where a continuous movement on the operation face performed by the user is accepted in the accepting step.

14. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image display element;

an instruction position detection unit configured to accept an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face;

a storage unit configured to store and hold image data of a plurality of images; and

a display control unit configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with the image data stored and held by the storage unit on the image display element,

wherein in a case where the user performs a continuous movement on the operation face, the display control unit performs a control for scrolling the display image while being reduced together with images before and after the display image in accordance with a direction of the operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection unit.

15. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image display element;

an instruction position detection unit configured to accept an instruction operation from a user through an operation face provided to a display screen of the image display element and detect and output an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the operation face;

a storage unit configured to store and hold image data of a plurality of images; and

a display control unit configured to perform a control for displaying an image in accordance with the image data stored and held by the storage unit on the image display element,

wherein in a case where the user performs an operation of keeping a contact position with respect to the operation face, the display control unit performs a control for reducing a display image together with one or more images before and after the display image and displaying the images on a display screen of the image display element in accordance with an operation determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction position detection unit.