Image editing method, image editing apparatus, program for implementing image editing method, and recording medium recording program

• US 9,135,733 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Kentaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Theriault, Steven B
• Application Number:
  US13/331,936
• Publication Number:
  US 20120086726A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,365 Days
• Field of Search: 715/788, 715722-725
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move an arbitrary point of an image displayed in an image display area among image data; a step of calculating an image movement amount and a magnification ratio in response to the instruction to move the arbitrary point; and a step displaying a predetermined area of the image data in the image display area on the basis of the image movement amount and the magnification ratio, which are calculated in the calculating step.

Claims

1. An image editing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a frame on an image;

inputting an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

arithmetically operating a movement amount and a magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input in said input step,

wherein, if the instruction to move the frame excessively over an end of the image is input in said input step, said arithmetic operation step arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with an excess movement amount over the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of displaying the frame based on the movement amount and the magnification ratio arithmetically operated in said arithmetic operation step, by superimposing the frame on the image.

3. A method according to claim 1, further comprising a step of instructing to print an image in the frame.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said arithmetic operation step is arranged to arithmetically operate the movement amount and the magnification ratio every predetermined period during a time period from start of the instruction to move the frame to end thereof.

5. An image editing apparatus comprising:

a display device which displays an image and displays a frame on the image;

an input device which inputs an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

a processor which arithmetically operates a movement amount and a magnification ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input by said input unit,

wherein, if the instruction to move the frame excessively over an edge of the image is input by said input device, said processor arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with an excessive movement amount over the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display device displays the frame based on the movement amount and the magnification ratio arithmetically operated by said processor, by superimposing the frame on the image.

7. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein an instruction is issued to print an image in the frame.

8. An apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said processor is arranged to arithmetically operate the movement amount and the magnification ratio every predetermined period during a time period from start of the instruction to move the frame to end thereof.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program comprising a code for causing a computer to execute image editing comprising the steps of:

displaying a frame on an image;

inputting an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

arithmetically operating a movement amount and a magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input in said input step,

wherein, if the instruction to move the frame excessively over an edge of the image is input in said input step, said arithmetic operation step arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with an excess movement amount over the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.

10. An image editing method comprising the steps of:

displaying a frame on an image;

inputting an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

controlling a movement amount and a magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input in said input step,

wherein after the frame reaches an edge of the image, if the instruction to further move the frame to a direction toward the edge of the image is input in said inputting step, said controlling step arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with a movement amount of the frame in the direction toward the edge of the image after the frame reaches the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.

11. An image editing apparatus comprising:

a display device which displays a frame on an image;

an input device which inputs an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

a processor which controls a movement amount and a magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input by said input unit,

wherein after the frame reaches an edge of the image, if the instruction to further move the frame to a direction toward the edge of the image is input by said input unit, said processor arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with a movement amount of the frame in the direction toward the edge of the image after the frame reaches the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program comprising a code for causing a computer to execute image editing comprising the steps of:

displaying a frame on an image;

inputting an instruction to move the displayed frame; and

controlling a movement amount and a magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with the instruction input in said input step,

wherein after the frame reaches an edge of the image, if the instruction to further move the frame to a direction toward the edge of the image is input in said inputting step, said controlling step arithmetically operates the magnification/reduction ratio of the frame in accordance with a movement amount of the frame in the direction toward the edge of the image after the frame reaches the edge of the image so as to reduce a size of the frame.