IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110074826A1
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: OTANI, Hiroshi
• Granted Patent: US 8,698,847 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/00 Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory

Abstract

According to the image display method, apparatus, and program of the present invention, when a user moves a display location to partially display text that is described in an image over a wide area, the burden of the user in performing return operations with respect to the screen display can be reduced by freely selecting and storing a return destination of the screen from among displayed partial regions in accordance with a user instruction, and thereafter returning to the display of the stored partial region in accordance with an instruction of the user.

Claims

1. An image display apparatus, comprising:

an operation portion that accepts input instructions including a movement instruction, an instruction to store a return location, and an instruction to return that relate to a partial display location of an image;

a display portion that, in response to the operation portion accepting the movement instruction, sequentially moves a desired partial region of the image to display a desired state;

a storage portion that, in response to the operation portion accepting the instruction to store the return location, stores state information of a return destination relating to a state of a return destination section that is a partial region of an image that is being displayed on the display portion at a time point when input of the instruction to store the return location is accepted; and

a control portion that, in response to the operation portion accepting the instruction to return, controls the display portion so as to display the return destination section in accordance with the state information of the return destination that is stored in the storage portion.

2. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein:

the operation portion accepts an instruction to cancel return;

in response to the operation portion accepting the instruction to return, the storage portion stores state information of a return origin relating to a state of a return origin section that is a partial region of an image that is being displayed on the display portion at a time point when input of the instruction to return is accepted; and

in response to the operation portion accepting the instruction to cancel return, the control portion controls the display portion so as to display the return origin section in accordance with the state information of the return origin that is stored in the storage portion.

3. The image display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the state information of the return destination includes at least one of the following items of information:

position coordinates of the return destination section in the image, a display size of the return destination section, and an enlargement or reduction ratio of the return destination section with respect to the image.

4. The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the state information of the return origin includes at least one of the following items of information:

position coordinates of the return origin section in the image, a display size of the return origin section, and an enlargement or reduction ratio of the return origin section with respect to the image.

5. The image display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the state information of the return origin includes at least one of the following items of information:

position coordinates of the return origin section in the image, a display size of the return origin section, and an enlargement or reduction ratio of the return origin section with respect to the image.

6. An image display method for causing an information processing apparatus to execute the steps of:

accepting input instructions including a movement instruction, an instruction to store a return location, and an instruction to return that relate to a partial display location of an image;

in response to accepting the movement instruction, sequentially moving a desired partial region of the image to display a desired state;

in response to accepting the instruction to store the return location, storing state information of a return destination relating to a state of a return destination section that is a partial region of an image that is being displayed at a time point when input of the instruction to store the return location is accepted; and

in response to accepting the instruction to return, performing control so as to display the return destination section in accordance with the state information of the return destination that is stored.

7. An image display program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute an image display method according to claim 6.

8. A non-transitory recording medium in which computer readable code of the image display program according to claim 7 is stored.