Image processing apparatus, method, and program using depression time input

• US 9,064,475 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2013
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gotohda, Yukita, Kon, Karin
• Primary Examiner(s): WANG, JIN CHENG
• Application Number:
  US13/975,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20130342582A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 345/672, 345/660, 345/634, 715/255, 715/273, 715/856, 382/284
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• 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: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/00 2D [Two Dimensional] image generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/38 with means for controlling the display position

Abstract

An image processing apparatus which includes an extension width determination unit for determining an extension width based on a depression time of the cursor at a reference position on an image display unit where a releasing operation of the cursor was performed, which is a time during which the cursor had been kept depressed until the releasing operation was performed, and an ornament piece arrangement unit for arranging the plurality of ornament pieces at positions radially extended away from the reference position with the extension width determined by the extension width determination unit.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method comprising:

detecting, by a computer system, user engagement with an input unit;

determining, by the computer system, an extension width based on a time of user engagement with the input unit;

based on user engagement with the input unit and at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons, selecting, by the computer system, a shape-type of the ornament pieces, each of the plurality of selection buttons indicating an available different shape-type of the ornament pieces;

in response to the selecting, arranging, by the computer system, ornament pieces of the same shape-type on an image at different positions radially extended away from a reference position based on the extension width; and

based on the time of user engagement with the input unit, changing, by the computer system, at least one of a number of the ornament pieces and a color of the ornament pieces.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining an extension width includes setting the extension width to be proportional to the time of user engagement with the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the arranging ornament pieces includes locating the ornament pieces at a distance from the reference position by the extension width.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the arranging ornament pieces includes locating the ornament pieces along an arrangement line having a predetermined shape.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined shape is at least one of a circular shape, an ellipsoidal shape, a polygonal shape, a star shape, and a heart shape.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the predetermined shape is a polygon and the ornament pieces are located at angles of the polygon.

7. The method of claim 4, further comprising rotating the predetermined shape.

8. The method of claim 4, further comprising reducing the predetermined shape.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the input unit detects user contact.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein user engagement with the input unit and the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons includes user contact with the input unit and the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the time of user engagement with the input unit and the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons is a time of user contact with the input unit and the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting a first area representing a main subject of the image and a second area of the image.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the arranging ornament pieces includes arranging the ornament pieces in the first area and the second area in different arrangement forms.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the arranging ornament pieces includes locating the ornament pieces only in the second area.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the first area includes at least one face.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions, which when executed by a computer, perform a method, comprising:

detecting user engagement with an input unit;

determining an extension width based on a time of user engagement with the input unit;

based on user engagement with the input unit and at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons, selecting a shape-type of the ornament pieces, each of the plurality of selection buttons indicating an available different shape-type of the ornament pieces;

in response to the selecting, arranging, by the computer system, ornament pieces of the same shape-type on an image at different positions radially extended away from a reference position based on the extension width; and

based on the time of user engagement with the input unit, changing at least one of a number of the ornament pieces and a color of the ornament pieces.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the determining an extension width includes setting the extension width to be proportional to the time of user engagement with the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 16, wherein the arranging ornament pieces includes locating the ornament pieces at a distance from the reference position by the extension width.

19. The system comprising:

at least one processor, and

a memory storing instructions configured to instruct the at least one processor to perform;

detecting user engagement with an input unit;

determining an extension width based on a time of user engagement with the input unit;

based on user engagement with the input unit and at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons, selecting a shape-type of the ornament pieces, each of the plurality of selection buttons indicating an available different shape-type of the ornament pieces;

in response to the selecting, arranging, by the computer system, ornament pieces of the same shape-type on an image at different positions radially extended away from a reference position based on the extension width; and

based on the time of user engagement with the input unit, changing at least one of a number of the ornament pieces and a color of the ornament pieces.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the determining an extension width includes setting the extension width to be proportional to the time of user engagement with the at least a first of a plurality of selection buttons.