IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20120188457A1
• Filed: 01/20/2012
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: KATO, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US13/354,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20120188457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/569
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42653 for processing graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440245 the reformatting operation being performed only on part of the stream, e.g. a region of the image or a time segment
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/440272 for performing aspect ratio conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• 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

An image processing apparatus includes: an operation part that specifies, for an input image of an inputted video signal, a display range of the input image to be displayed on a display part according to a user operation; and an image processing part that extracts an image within the display range from the input image when it is detected that the display range specified by the operation signal reaches an edge of four sides of the input image, and performs a process of drawing a line along an edge of a screen of the display part correspondingly to a direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an operation part that specifies, for an input image of an inputted video signal, a display range of the input image to be displayed on a display part according to a user operation; and

an image processing part that extracts an image within the display range from the input image when it is detected that the display range specified by the operation signal reaches an edge of four sides of the input image, and performs a process of drawing a line along an edge of a screen of the display part correspondingly to a direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image processing part includes:

a control part that determines whether the display range specified by the operation part reaches an edge of the four sides of the input image; and

a video signal process part that generates an output video signal of the image within the display range extracted from the input image when the control part determines that the display range reaches an edge of the four sides of the input image, and superimposes, on the output video signal, a signal for drawing the line along the edge of the screen of the display part correspondingly to the direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the control part calculates a position of the display range of the input image and an enlargement ratio of the input image to the screen of the display part based on the display range specified by the operation part, and

the video signal processing part generates the output video signal based on the position of the display range and the enlargement ratio calculated by the control part.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the display range reaches an edge of the four sides of the input image, the video signal processing part generates the signal for drawing the line along the edge of the screen of the display part correspondingly to the direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image, and generates the output video signal to shift the extracted image by a thickness of the line drawn along the edge of the screen of the display part and to display the image on the screen.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the display range reaches an edge of the four sides of the input image, during continuation of the user operation, the video signal processing part generates the signal for drawing the line along the edge of the screen of the display part correspondingly to the direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein when the display range reaches an edge of the four sides of the input image, the video signal processing part generates a signal for drawing a line blinking at regular time intervals along the edge of the screen of the display part correspondingly to the direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides.

7. An image processing method comprising:

generating, by an operation part provided in an image processing apparatus, an operation signal that specifies, for an input image of an inputted video signal, a display range of the input image to be displayed on a display part according to a user operation; and

extracting, by an image processing part provided in the image processing apparatus, an image within the display range from the input image when it is detected that the display range specified by the operation signal reaches an edge of four sides of the input image, and drawing a line along an edge of the extracted image correspondingly to a direction in which the display range reaches the edge of the four sides of the input image.