METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE INCLUDING POSITION INFORMATION

• US 20110316885A1
• Filed: 03/28/2011
• Published: 12/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Dae-hyun, LEE, Chang-soo, LEE, Sang-hee, PHANG, Joon-ho, YOON, Yeo-ri
• Application Number:
  US13/073,123
• Publication Number:
  US 20110316885A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00442 Simultaneous viewing of a plurality of images, e.g. using a mosaic display arrangement of thumbnails
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00448 horizontally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00464 using browsers, i.e. interfaces based on mark-up languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data

Abstract

A method and an apparatus are provided, which can display a map that includes a position corresponding to position information in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view having perspective views and display an image on an upper portion of the map that is displayed in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view to correspond to the position information when the image including the position information is displayed on the map.

Claims

1. A method of displaying an image, the method comprising:

displaying at least a first image including position information; and

displaying a map including a position that corresponds to the position information in a form of a bird'"'"'s eye view having perspective views;

wherein the first image is displayed on an upper portion of the position of the map displayed in the form of the bird'"'"'s eye view.

2. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position information includes at least one of position information on a position in which the first image is captured, position information on a position in which the first image is downloaded, and position information on a position designated by a user.

3. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, further comprising displaying the map so that the map is changed to correspond to position information of a second image when the second image is selected.

4. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 3, further comprising:

converting and displaying the first image with a size that is smaller than a size of the second image when the second image is selected; and

converting and displaying a third image with a size that is smaller than the size of the second image.

5. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first image moves in a same direction as a direction in which the second image moves.

6. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the two or more images are displayed in positions on the map that correspond to positions in which the two or more images are formed.

7. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 6, wherein a method of displaying the images according to the positions in which the images are formed displays images formed in a position that is relatively near with a relatively large size, and displays images formed in a position that is relatively far away with a relatively small size.

8. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, further comprising displaying marks indicating a position movement path of images on the map in a case where two or more images are successively displayed.

9. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first image includes at least one of a two-dimensional (2D) photograph, a three-dimensional (3D) photograph, a 2D moving image, and a 3D moving image.

10. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position information includes at least one of meta data and geo tag.

11. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position information indicates a geographical position using a Global Positioning System (GPS).

12. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, further comprising downloading the map, including a geographical position, through the Internet.

13. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the map is displayed in a same direction as a direction in which the first image has been captured.

14. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, further comprising further displaying a direction indicator indicating a capturing direction of the first image or a direction of the map.

15. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 14, wherein if the direction indicator is displayed with a changed capturing direction of the first image or a changed direction of the map, the direction indicator indicates the changed direction in order to indicate the change in direction of the first image or the change in direction of the map.

16. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the map is displayed with its direction changed in accordance with an order determined by the time that the images are formed.

17. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the images are displayed in groups in accordance with an order determined by the time that the images are formed.

18. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are displayed, images which are formed in a same position are displayed in a group.

19. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 18, wherein the same position includes at least one of a radius equal to or shorter than 300 m, a latitude equal to or smaller than 0.0001 degree, and a longitude equal to or shorter than 0.0001 degree based on a Global Positioning System (GPS) position measurement unit.

20. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are formed and successively displayed, the position of the map is successively changed in accordance with the position information of the images.

21. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the images are displayed in accordance with an order determined by the time that the images are formed.

22. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 21, wherein if the images are successively displayed, direction indicators are also successively displayed corresponding to the position information of the image.

23. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the image is formed as a moving image, the position of the map is successively changed in accordance with the position information of the images.

24. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the image is formed as a moving image, marks indicating a position movement path of the moving image are successively displayed on the map in accordance with position information of the moving image.

25. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one first image is displayed in a direction different from a direction in which the map is displayed.

26. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 25, wherein direction indicators are further displayed corresponding to the position information of the image.

27. A method of displaying an image, the method comprising:

displaying at least one first image;

displaying a map including position information in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view having perspective views;

displaying the at least one first image in an upper portion of a specified position of the map that is displayed in the form of the bird'"'"'s eye view; and

determining the specified position of the map as the position information of the image.

28. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 27, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the two or more images move in accordance with the position information.

29. An apparatus for displaying an image, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit which displays at least one first image including position information and a map which includes a location that corresponds to the position information; and

a control unit which controls the display unit to display the map in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view having perspective views and to display the at least one first image in an upper portion of a position that corresponds to the position information of the map displayed in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view.

30. The apparatus for displaying an image as claimed in claim 29, further comprising a control unit which controls the display so that the map moves to a position of a second image in accordance with position interlocking when the second image is displayed.

31. The apparatus for displaying an image as claimed in claim 29, wherein the position information includes at least one of position information regarding a position in which the image is captured, position information regarding a position in which the image is downloaded, and position information regarding a position designated by a user.

32. The apparatus for displaying an image as claimed in claim 29, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the images are displayed in positions on the map that correspond to positions in which the images are formed.

33. The apparatus for displaying an image as claimed in claim 32, wherein the images are displayed in accordance with the positions in which the images are formed so that the images formed in a relatively near position are displayed with a relatively large size, and the images formed in a relatively far position are displayed with a relatively small size.

34. The apparatus for displaying an image as claimed in claim 29, wherein if two or more images are displayed, the images are displayed corresponding to the position information on the map in accordance with an order determined by the time that the images are formed.

35. A computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program that when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a method of displaying an image, the method comprising:

displaying at least a first image including position information; and

displaying a map including a position that corresponds to the position information in the form of a bird'"'"'s eye view having perspective views;

wherein the first image is displayed on an upper portion of the position of the map displayed in the form of the bird'"'"'s eye view.

36. A method of displaying images, the method comprising:

displaying the images in an order determined by a time in which the images are captured;

displaying a map indicating a position where the images are captured;

displaying the images corresponding to position information on the map, and

displaying a direction indicator indicating a capturing direction of the images or a direction of the map.

37. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 36, wherein images that are formed at an early time are displayed with a relatively large size, and images that are formed more recently are displayed with a size that is smaller than the images captured at the earlier time.

38. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 37, wherein the position information may include at least one of meta data and geo tag.

39. The method of displaying an image as claimed in claim 38, wherein the position information may indicate a geographical position using a Global Positioning System (GPS).