DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120306915A1
• Filed: 05/30/2012
• Published: 12/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Takemura, Koji
• Application Number:
  US13/483,334
• Publication Number:
  US 20120306915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/373 for modifying the size of the graphic pattern
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/397 Arrangements specially adapted for transferring the contents of two or more bit-mapped memories to the screen simultaneously, e.g. for mixing or overlay G09G5/02 takes precedence

Abstract

A display device adapted to display an input image includes a display section adapted to display the input image, a designation section adapted to designate a holding area in a first input image displayed by the display section, an image storage section adapted to store a whole of the first input image presently displayed in response to designation of the holding area of the first input image by the designation section, a superimposition processing unit adapted to extract the holding area designated by the designation section from the first input image stored in the image storage section, and then superimpose the extracted holding area to a second input image input after inputting the first input image to thereby generate a superimposed image, and a display control section adapted to make the display section display the superimposed image generated by the superimposition processing unit.

Claims

1. A display device adapted to display an input image, comprising:

a display section adapted to display the input image;

a designation section adapted to designate a holding area in a first input image displayed by the display section;

an image storage section adapted to store a whole of the first input image presently displayed in response to designation of the holding area of the first input image by the designation section;

a superimposition processing unit adapted to extract the holding area designated by the designation section from the first input image stored in the image storage section, and then superimpose the extracted holding area to a second input image input after inputting the first input image to thereby generate a superimposed image; and

a display control section adapted to make the display section display the superimposed image generated by the superimposition processing unit.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the superimposition processing unit arranges the holding area extracted from the first input image stored in the image storage section at a position where the holding area has been located when the holding area has been designated by the designation section, and then superimposes the holding area to the second input image.

3. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a holding area information storage section adapted to store holding area information representing the position of the holding area designated by the designation section for each of the first input images stored in the image storage section,

wherein the superimposition processing unit extracts the holding area from the first input image stored in the image storage section based on the holding area information stored in the holding area information storage section.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the designation section is configured to be able to instruct position change of the holding area during the display of the superimposed image by the display section, and

the superimposition processing unit changes the position of the holding area in accordance with the instruction of the designation section, and then newly generates the superimposed image in response to the instruction of the position change of the holding area by the designation section.

5. The display device according to claim 1, wherein

the image storage section is configured to be able to store a plurality of the first input images, and

the superimposition processing unit respectively extracts the holding areas designated by the designation section from the plurality of the first input images stored in the image storage section, and then superimposes a plurality of the holding areas extracted to the second input image to thereby generate the superimposed image.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein

the superimposition processing unit arranges the plurality of the holding areas extracted from the plurality of the first input images stored in the image storage section so as not to overlap with each other, and then superimposes the holding areas to the second input image to thereby generate the superimposed image.

7. A method of controlling a display device adapted to display an input image, comprising:

storing a whole of a first input image presently displayed in response to designation of a holding area in the first input image presently displayed;

extracting the holding area from the first input image stored in the storing, and then superimposing the extracted holding area to a second input image input after inputting the first input image to thereby generate a superimposed image; and

displaying the superimposed image generated in the extracting.

8. A recording medium storing a computer executable program adapted to allow a computer to control a display device adapted to display an input image, the program making the computer function as a device comprising:

a superimposition processing unit adapted to store a whole of a first input image presently displayed to an image storage section in response to designation of a holding area in the first input image presently displayed, then extract the holding area designated by a designation section from the first input image stored in the image storage section, and then superimpose the extracted holding area to a second input image input after inputting the first input image to thereby generate a superimposed image; and

a display control section adapted to make a display section display the superimposed image generated by the superimposition processing unit.