DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING PROGRAM TO EXECUTE METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS

• US 20110115947A1
• Filed: 11/17/2010
• Published: 05/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Hae-sung
• Application Number:
  US12/948,036
• Publication Number:
  US 20110115947A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/240.99
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming

Abstract

A digital photographing apparatus, a method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a recording medium for storing a program to execute the method, in which a scale of an image displayed on a display unit is changed by a touch operation performed on a touchscreen, and simultaneously an optical or digital zooming operation is performed. The method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus including a touchscreen includes displaying an image on the touchscreen, recognizing a touch operation in which the image is swiped from a first point to a second point on the touchscreen, and changing an image scale so as to correspond to the recognized touch operation and displaying the image.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus comprising a touchscreen, the method comprising:

displaying an image on the touchscreen;

recognizing a touch operation in which the image is swiped from a first point to a second point on the touchscreen; and

changing an image scale so as to correspond to the recognized touch operation and displaying the image.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed in a photography mode, and

wherein a zooming operation is performed so as to correspond to the changed image scale.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch operation in which the image is swiped from the first point to the second point is performed by a single touch operation.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the image scale is simultaneously performed together with the touch operation in which the image is swiped from the first point to the second point on the touchscreen.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the changing of the image scale comprises increasing or decreasing of the image scale so as to correspond to a swiped length from the first point to the second point, and displaying the image.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the increasing of the image scale is performed when the first point is positioned above the second point.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the decreasing of the image scale is performed when the first point is positioned below the second point.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein a degree of increasing or decreasing the image scale is simultaneously displayed on the touchscreen when the image scale is increased or decreased and the image is displayed.

9. A non-transitory computer program product, comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement the method according to claim 1.

10. A digital photographing apparatus comprising:

a touchscreen;

a touch recognition unit for recognizing a touch operation in which the image is swiped from a first point to a second point on the touchscreen; and

an image scale adjusting unit for changing an image scale so as to correspond to the recognized touch operation and displaying the image.

11. The digital photographing apparatus of claim 10, further comprising a zoom controller for operating a zooming operation so as to correspond to the image scale changed in a photography mode.

12. The digital photographing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the touch operation in which the image is swiped from the first point to the second point is performed by a single touch operation.

13. The digital photographing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the image scale adjusting unit adjusts the image scale simultaneously with the touch operation in which the image is swiped from the first point to the second point on the touchscreen.

14. The digital photographing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the image scale adjusting unit increases or decreases the image scale so as to correspond to a swiped length from the first point to the second point, and displays the image.

15. The digital photographing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the image scale adjusting unit displays a degree of increasing or decreasing the image scale on the touchscreen simultaneously when the image scale is increased or decreased and the image is displayed.