IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD AND DEVICE

• US 20160147792A1
• Filed: 07/11/2014
• Published: 05/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: OH, Hun-Cheol, KIM, Soo-Hyung, ROH, Byoung-Tack
• Granted Patent: US 10,528,619 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/30 Authentication, i.e. establishing the identity or authorisation of security principals
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a device for displaying an image through the recognition of an object displayed on the screen of an electronic device, wherein the device for displaying an image includes: a storage unit storing a plurality of image files; a display unit displaying an image, corresponding to each image file stored in the storage unit, on the screen of the electronic device and changing an image, currently displayed according to an input by an input unit or the setting of an automatic screen change function, to another image stored in the storage unit; and a control unit enabling images, not including a selected object from among images of a plurality of image files stored in the storage unit, to not be displayed on the display unit, according to the selection of a specific object in an image displayed on the screen.

Claims

1-15. -15. (canceled)

16. A method for displaying an image in an electronic device, comprising:

displaying, by the electronic device, a first image;

detecting, by the electronic device, a selection of at least one object included in the first image; and

searching, by the electronic device, a plurality of images stored in a storage unit to identify one or more images from the plurality that include the object.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying the one or more images from the plurality that include the object, in response to a predetermined input.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying one or more images from the plurality that do not include the object, in response to a predetermined input.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising displaying, on a screen, a user interface for selecting between a first function for displaying the one or more images that include the object, and a second function for displaying one or more images that do not include the object.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the user interface includes a menu window including one or more input components for selecting at least one of the first function and the second function.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising storing, in the storage unit, an indication of an order in which the one or more images including the object are to be displayed, the indication being stored when the object is selected.

22. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

storing, in the storage unit, a mapping between the object and the one or more images in the plurality that include the object; and

displaying the one or more images including the object in response to detecting a predetermined input, wherein the one or more images including the object are displayed based on the mapping.

23. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

detecting the object and one or more other objects in the first image;

displaying a respective marker for each of the detected objects,

wherein the selection of the object is detected in response to an input being performed on the respective marker for the object.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein the object includes one of a human'"'"'s face, a human body, a part of a human body, an object that a person possesses, an object that a person wears, an animal, a building, a part of a building, a tree, an object fixed on a background of the image, and a movable object.

25. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit;

a memory; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, configured to;

display a first image on the display unit;

detect a selection of an object included in the first image; and

search a plurality of images stored in the memory to identify one or more images from the plurality that include the object.

26. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display, on the display unit, the one or more images from the plurality that include the object, in response to a predetermined input.

27. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display, on the display unit, one or more images from the plurality that do not include the object, in response to a predetermined input.

28. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to store in the memory an indication of an order in which the one or more images including the object are to be displayed, the indication being stored when the object is selected.

29. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

store in the memory a mapping between the object and the one or more images in the plurality that include the object; and

display, on the display unit, the one or more images based on the mapping, in response to detecting a predetermined input.

30. The electronic device of claim 25, wherein:

the at least one processor is further configured to detect the object and one or more other objects in the first image, and display a respective marker for each of the detected objects,

wherein the selection of the object is detected in response to an input being performed on the respective marker for the object.