System and method for displaying a rotated image in a display device

• US 8,264,506 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2008
• Issued: 09/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagaraj, Guruprasad, Murthy, Krishna Koteshwara Sridhar, Patil, Vijayalaxmi, Muniyappa, Nataraja Kambadahalli, Nyamagouda, Sunil Ramappa
• Primary Examiner(s): Johnson, M Good
• Application Number:
  US12/195,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20090096814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,482 Days
• Field of Search: 345/659, 345/649
• US Class Current: 345/659
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management

Abstract

A method for controlling display of an image includes generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image. The lines in the source image are then transferred in non-sequential order from a first memory to a second memory based on the random numbers in the list and orientation change information. The resulting image in the second memory is then displayed in the desired orientation.

Claims

1. A method for displaying an image in a display device, comprising:

(a) generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image;

(b) selecting a first random number from the list;

(c) transferring the line in the source image that corresponds to the first random number from a source memory to a display memory based on orientation change information;

(d) automatically determining a second random number from the list based on selection of the first random number;

(e) transferring the line in the source image that corresponds to the second random number from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information; and

(f) repeating (b)-(e) for remaining random numbers in the list until all remaining lines in the source image are transferred from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change info nation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein different pairs of adjacent random numbers in said list are separated by different incremental values.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein transferring said lines from the source memory to the display memory includes:

controlling a memory pointer of the source memory and a memory pointer of the display memory based on said different incremental values.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the lines in the source memory are divided into first and second sections relative to a reference point in the source image, and wherein each line in the first section has a mirror image line in the second section, the source image transferred into the display memory based on the division of lines in the first and second sections.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, in (d), the second random number is automatically determined to correspond to the mirror image of the first random number relative to said reference point.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the reference point is located between two lines in the source image.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the reference point coincides with a line in the source image.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the first section includes lines in a first half of the source image and the second section includes lines in a second half of the source image.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said orientation change information designates a desired angle of rotation of the source memory to be displayed on a screen of the display device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein pointers in the source and display memories are controlled based on an order of selection of random numbers from said list.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein random numbers are sequentially selected from the list to control a random order of transfer of images lines in the source image from the source memory to the display memory.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein pixels in each line in the source image are sequentially transferred from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

dividing the source image into first and second sections relative to a reference point, wherein;

each image line in the first section of the source image has a corresponding mirror image line in the second section of the source image,

the first random number selected from the list corresponds to an image line of the first section of the source image,

the second random number corresponds to a mirror image line in the second section of the source image, the mirror image line corresponding to a mirror image line of the image line in the first section corresponding to the first random number.

14. A system for displaying an image in a display device, comprising:

a first memory to store a source image;

a second memory to store a display image; and

a processor to control transfer of the source image from the first memory to the second memory, the processor changing an orientation of the source image by;

(a) generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in the source image;

(b) selecting a first random number from the list;

(c) transferring the image line in the source image that corresponds to the first random number from the source memory to the display memory based on orientation change information;

(d) automatically determining a second random number from the list based on selection of the first random number;

(e) transferring the image line in the source image that corresponds to the second random number from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information; and

(f) repeating (b)-(e) for remaining random numbers in the list until all remaining image lines in the source image are transferred from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor generates random numbers so that different pairs of adjacent random numbers in said list are separated by different incremental values.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein transferring said image lines from the source memory to the display memory includes:

controlling a memory pointer of the source memory and a memory pointer of the display memory based on said different incremental values.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein:

the image lines in the source memory are divided into first and second sections relative to a reference point in the source image, and wherein each image line in the first section has a mirror image line in the second section, the source image transferred into the display memory based on the division of image lines in the first and second sections.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein, in (d), the processor automatically determines that the second random number corresponds to the mirror image of the first random number relative to said reference point.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the reference point is located between two image lines in the source image.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the reference point coincides with an image line in the source image.

21. The system of claim 17, wherein the first section includes image lines in a first half of the source image and the second section includes image lines in a second half of the source image.

22. The system of claim 17, wherein said orientation change information designates a desired angle of rotation of the source memory to be displayed on a screen of the display device.

23. The system of claim 14, wherein pointers in the source and display memories are controlled based on an order of selection of random numbers from said list.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein random numbers are sequentially selected from the list to control a random order of transfer of images lines in the source image from the source memory to the display memory.

25. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor sequentially transfers pixels in each line of the source image from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information.

26. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for:

(a) generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image;

(b) selecting a first random number from the list;

(c) transferring the image line in the source image that corresponds to the first random number from a source memory to a display memory based on orientation change information;

(d) automatically determining a second random number from the list based on selection of the first random number;

(e) transferring the image line in the source image that corresponds to the second random number from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information; and

(f) repeating (b)-(e) for remaining random numbers in the list until all remaining image lines in the source image are transferred from the source memory to the display memory based on said orientation change information.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 26, wherein different pairs of adjacent random numbers in said list are separated by different incremental values.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 27, wherein transferring said image lines from the source memory to the display memory includes:

controlling a memory pointer of the source memory and a memory pointer of the display memory based on said different incremental values.

29. A method for controlling display of an image, comprising:

generating a list of non-sequential random numbers, each number corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of lines in a source image;

transferring the lines in the source image from a first memory to a second memory based on orientation change information, the lines in the source image transferred in non-sequential order using the random numbers in said list; and

displaying an image based on the image lines in the second memory.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein all pixels in each line are transferred before pixels in any subsequent line are transferred to the second memory.

31. The method of claim 29, wherein the lines in the source image are transferred to the second memory by controlling a pointer of at least the first memory, and wherein different incremental values are used to control movement of the pointer when transferring different lines of the source image from the first memory to the second memory.