APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CHANGING IMAGES IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20130335450A1
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Published: 12/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Sang-Jin, AHN, Ji-Sung
• Application Number:
  US13/870,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20130335450A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/634
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence

Abstract

An apparatus and method for changing a background image or a lock screen image in an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting a first screen image when a screen image change menu is selected, adjusting a size of the selected first screen image, disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image, and displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged.

Claims

1. A method of changing a screen image in an electronic device, the method comprising:

selecting a first screen image when a screen image change menu is selected;

adjusting a size of the selected first screen image;

disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image; and

displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

merging the first screen image on the second screen image; and

storing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged,

wherein the first screen image, the second screen image, and the third screen image are stacked up and stored in a memory by a stack structure.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image comprises resizing the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image comprises cropping a part of the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising replacing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged with the second screen image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a location where the first screen image is disposed on the corresponding area of the second screen image is at least one of specified by a user, determined randomly, and determined according to a blank area of the second screen image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the screen image comprises at least one of an image for a background, an image for a lock screen, and an image for a home screen.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first screen image comprises at least one of an image photographed through a camera, a tagged image, and a favorite image.

9. A method of changing a screen image in an electronic device, the method comprising:

sensing a screen image change event based on tag information of a first screen image;

adjusting a size of the selected first screen image when the screen image change event is generated;

disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image; and

displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

merging the first screen image on the second screen image; and

storing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged,

wherein the first screen image, the second screen image, and the third screen image are stacked up and stored in a memory by a stack structure.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image comprises resizing the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image comprises cropping a part of the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising replacing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged with the second screen image.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein a location where the first screen image is disposed on the corresponding area of the second screen image is at least one of specified by a user, determined randomly, and determined according to a blank area of the second screen image.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the screen image comprises at least one of an image for a background, an image for a lock screen, and an image for a home screen.

16. An electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, each of the one or more programs which is stored in the memory and is configured to be executable by the one or more processors, wherein each of the one or more programs includes instructions for selecting a first screen image when a screen image change menu is selected, adjusting a size of the selected first screen image, disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image, and displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising instructions for merging the first screen image on the second screen image and storing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged,

wherein the first screen image, the second screen image, and the third screen image are stacked up and stored in the memory by a stack structure.

18. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image is performed by resizing the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

19. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image is performed by cropping a part of the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

20. The electronic device of claim 16, further comprising an instruction for replacing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged with the second screen image.

21. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein a location where the first screen image is disposed on the corresponding area of the second screen image is at least one of specified by a user, determined randomly, and determined according to a blank area of the second screen image.

22. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the screen image comprises at least one of an image for a background, an image for a lock screen, and an image for a home screen.

23. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the first screen image comprises at least one of an image photographed through a camera, a tagged image, and a favorite image.

24. An electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, each of the one or more programs which is stored in the memory and is configured to be executable by the one or more processors, wherein each of the one or more programs includes instructions for sensing a screen image change event based on tag information of a first screen image, adjusting a size of the selected first screen image when the screen image change event is generated, disposing the first screen image on a corresponding area of a second screen image, and displaying a third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged.

25. The electronic device of claim 24, further comprising instructions for merging the first screen image on the second screen image and storing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged,

wherein the first screen image, the second screen image, and the third screen image are stacked up and stored in the memory by a stack structure.

26. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image is performed by resizing the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

27. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the adjustment of the size of the first screen image is performed by cropping a part of the first screen image to have a size which is smaller than that of the second screen image.

28. The electronic device of claim 24, further comprising an instruction for replacing the third screen image in which the first screen image and the second screen image are merged with the second screen image.

29. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein a location where the first screen image is disposed on the corresponding area of the second screen image is at least one of specified by a user, determined randomly, and determined according to a blank area of the second screen image.

30. The electronic device of claim 24, wherein the screen image comprises at least one of an image for a background, an image for a lock screen, and an image for a home screen.