SENSING APPARATUS, EVENT SENSING METHOD, AND PHOTOGRAPHING SYSTEM

• US 20110001824A1
• Filed: 05/07/2010
• Published: 01/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd. (Hanwha Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd. (Hanwha Corporation)
• Inventors: CHANG, Il-kwon
• Application Number:
  US12/775,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20110001824A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

A sensing apparatus determines a location and a direction where a display and an event are sensed, and causes a separate event to occur based on the location and the direction where the event is sensed. Accordingly, a user may set a direction where the event is sensed on a photographed screen more easily and conveniently.

Claims

1. A sensing apparatus, comprising:

a display to display a captured image on a screen; and

a control unit to determine a location where an event is sensed by setting a boundary on the screen, to determine a direction in which the event is sensed by setting directionality of the boundary, and to cause a separate event to occur based on the location and direction in which the event is sensed.

2. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a user input unit to set directionality,

wherein when a drag is input via the user input unit, the control unit sets the directionality based on the drag.

3. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the control unit sets the directionality from a location where the drag starts to a location where the drag ends.

4. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the boundary comprises at least one line.

5. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein if a user sets directionality in a direction to cross the at least one line, the control unit sets the directionality according to the user'"'"'s manipulation.

6. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit causes an independent separate event to occur according to at least one of a location and a direction in which the event is sensed.

7. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensed event is an event to control an object that appears on the captured image on the screen.

8. The sensing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the separate event includes at least one of storing a screen displayed on the display, transmitting a control signal regarding a first object in the captured image, and transmitting a control signal regarding a second object in the vicinity of the first object.

9. An event sensing method, comprising:

displaying a captured image on a screen;

setting a boundary to determine a location where an event is sensed on the screen;

setting directionality of the boundary to determine a direction in which the event is sensed; and

causing a separate event to occur based on at least one of a sensed location and a direction of the event.

10. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein, if a dragging is input by the user input unit, the directionality is set based on the dragging.

11. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the setting directionality sets the directionality from a location where the drag starts to a location where the drag ends.

12. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the boundary comprises at least one line.

13. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 12, wherein, if a user'"'"'s manipulation is input in a direction which crosses the at least one line, the directionality is set according to the input direction.

14. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the causing an independent separate event to occur causes a separate event to occur according to a location and a direction where the event is sensed.

15. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sensed event is an event in which an object appears on the captured image on the screen.

16. The event sensing method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the separate event includes at least one of storing a screen displayed on the display, transmitting a control signal regarding a first object displayed on the screen, and transmitting a control signal regarding a second object near the first object.

17. A photographing system, comprising:

a photographing apparatus;

a display apparatus to display an image captured by the photographing apparatus on a screen;

a user input apparatus to set a boundary on the screen and a directionality of the boundary; and

a control apparatus to determine a location where an event in sensed on the screen based on the set boundary, to determine a direction in which the event is sensed based on the set directionality, and to cause a separate event to occur based on at least one of the sensed location and direction of the event.

18. A method of triggering an event, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of images on a screen;

forming a first boundary on the screen corresponding to a location in the plurality of images; and

triggering an event when a first object in the plurality of images crosses the first boundary.

19. An apparatus to trigger an event, comprising:

a computing device to receive a plurality of images, to generate a first boundary corresponding to a location in the plurality of images, and to trigger an event when a first object in the plurality of images crosses the first boundary;

a display to display the plurality of images and the boundary; and

an input device to receive an input to generate the boundary.