Graphic display apparatus, graphic display method and recording medium in which graphic display program is recorded

• US 8,842,132 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2012
• Issued: 09/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Yoshizawa, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Richer, Joni
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yang, Yi
• Application Number:
  US13/352,557
• Publication Number:
  US 20120188274A1
• Time in Patent Office: 979 Days
• Field of Search: 345/629, 345/440, 345/441, 345/421, 345/619, 345/442, 382/195, 708/130
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/62 of area, perimeter, diameter or volume

Abstract

Disclosed is a graphic display apparatus including a display unit, a reference object length storage unit in which specified parts of reference objects and actual lengths of the specified parts are stored, an image storage unit in which images are stored, an image display control unit which displays a specified image which is specified based on a user'"'"'s operation in the display unit, a specified image part setting unit which detects a specified part of a reference object in the specified image and sets the detected specified part as a specified image part, a coordinate system setting unit which superimposes a coordinate system on the specified image and sets a display range of the coordinate system based on an actual length of the specified image part, and a graphic display control unit which superimposes and displays a graphic on the specified image.

Claims

1. A graphic display apparatus, comprising:

a display unit;

a reference object length storage unit in which specified parts of reference objects and actual lengths of the specified parts are stored in such manner that the specified parts and the actual lengths of the specified parts are associated to each other;

an image storage unit in which a plurality of images are stored;

an image display control unit which displays on the display unit, an image from among the plurality of images stored in the image storage unit;

a size detecting unit which detects an image length of a specified part of a reference object in the displayed image;

an actual length setting unit which sets a display range of a coordinate system defined by coordinate axes based on the image length of the specified part and an actual length of the specified part so that a specified image part in the image is a coordinate range in the actual length of the specified part;

a graphic display control unit which superimposes and displays a graphic on the specified image based on a user'"'"'s operation; and

an actual length value display control unit which displays a coordinate value in actual length of a point on the graphic based on a user'"'"'s operation.

2. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a reference object classification storage unit in which classifications of the reference objects are stored;

a reference object assigning unit which assigns any one of the reference objects according to a user'"'"'s operation following the classifications stored in the reference object classification storage unit; and

a reference object detection unit which detects the reference object which is assigned by the reference object assigning unit in the specified image.

3. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a reference object detection unit which detects the reference object in the specified image by detecting an image of the reference object stored in the reference object length storage unit by an image recognition,

wherein in the reference object length storage unit, images of the reference objects, specified parts of the reference objects and the actual lengths of the specified parts are stored in such a manner that the images of the reference objects, the specified parts of the reference objects and the actual lengths of the specified parts are associated to each other.

4. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein when an architecture is the reference object in the specified image, a part which is from a bottom to an apex of the architecture is set as the specified image part, and the actual length setting unit sets the display range of the coordinate system so that a horizontal axis matches the bottom of the architecture.

5. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a reference object setting unit which sets a given shape as the reference object based on a user'"'"'s operation;

an actual length input unit which inputs an actual length of a specified part of the reference object based on a user'"'"'s operation; and

a reference object length registration unit which, according to the reference object set by the reference object setting unit and the actual length of the specified part of the reference object which is input by the actual length input unit, registers the specified part of the reference object and the actual length of the specified part in the reference object length storage unit in such manner that the specified part and the actual length of the specified part are associated to each other.

6. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the graphic display control unit displays a graph as the graphic and displays a graph formula which expresses the graph.

7. The graphic display apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the actual length value display control unit is an actual size trace control unit which displays a trace pointer on the graph, moves the trace pointer on the graph according to a user'"'"'s operation, and displays coordinate values of the trace pointer in actual size.

8. A graphic display method of a graphic display apparatus comprising a display unit, the method comprising:

storing specified parts of reference objects and actual lengths of the specified parts in association with each other;

storing a plurality of images;

controlling the display unit to display an image from among the stored plurality of images;

detecting an image length of a specified part of a reference object in the displayed image;

setting a display range of a coordinate system defined by coordinate axes based on the image length of the specified part and an actual length of the specified part so that a specified image part in the image is a coordinate range in the actual length of the specified part;

superimposing and displaying a graphic on the specified image based on a user'"'"'s operation; and

displaying a coordinate value in actual length of a point on the graphic based on a user'"'"'s operation.

9. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having stored thereon a graphic display program for controlling a computer comprising a display unit to function as:

a reference object length storage unit in which specified parts of reference objects and actual lengths of the specified parts are stored in such manner that the specified parts and the actual lengths of the specified parts are associated to each other;

an image storage unit in which a plurality of images are stored;

an image display control unit which displays on the display unit, an image from among the plurality of images stored in the image storage unit;

a size detecting unit which detects an image length of a specified part of a reference object in the displayed image;

an actual length setting unit which sets a display range of a coordinate system defined by coordinate axes based on the image length of the specified part and an actual length of the specified part so that a specified image part in the image is a coordinate range in the actual length of the specified part;

a graphic display control unit which superimposes and displays a graphic on the specified image based on a user'"'"'s operation; and

an actual length value display control unit which displays a coordinate value in actual length of a point on the graphic based on a user'"'"'s operation.