Display control apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for displaying an image portion nearest a pointed blank portion

• US 9,405,998 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakada, Misaki
• Primary Examiner(s): HON, MING Y
• Application Number:
  US14/452,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242711A1
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/502 relating to the structure of the control menu, e.g. pop-up menus, help screens
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/002 Interacting with the operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00 Scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission; Details thereof

Abstract

A display control apparatus includes an image display that displays a document image representing a document file; an accepting unit that accepts an operation to point a portion in the document image displayed in the image display; an extracting unit that, upon acceptance of the operation to point the portion in the document image by the accepting unit, extracts each image portion surrounded by pixels other than white pixels from the entire document image if a ratio of the white pixels in the pixels in the document image is higher than or equal to a predetermined threshold value in an area of a predetermined size centered at the pointed portion; and a display controller that performs control so as to display information concerning the image portion having the shortest distance from the portion, among the image portions extracted by the extracting unit, in the image display.

Claims

1. A display control apparatus comprising:

an image display configured to display a document image;

an extracting unit configured to extract image portions from the document image, in response to the display control apparatus receiving a pointing operation that points to position where a white portion of the document image, the white portion of the document image is a portion of the document image where a ratio of white pixels to non-white pixels in a specified area centered at the pointed position is greater than or equal to a threshold value; and

a display controller configured to control the image display to center and display an image portion among the extracted image portions that is nearest the pointed position.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is configured to enhance the image portion that is nearest the pointed position.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display controller is configured to enlarge the image portion nearest the pointed position.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image display is configured to display a number of the image portions extracted by the extracting unit,

in response to the accepting unit receiving a pointing operation of pointing to a portion where the number of the image portions is displayed, the display controller switches from displaying one image portion at the center of the image display to displaying another image portion at the center of the image display.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, in response to receiving the pointing operation, the display controller calculates a distance from an end of a display range to an image portion among the extracted image portions that is outside the display range and a size of the image portion at the indicated position, and displays the notification image to indicate the position of the image portion in the document image and the size of the image portion on the basis of the distance and the size that are calculated.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the display range is adjustable with respect to the document image, and

wherein, in response to an input for adjusting the display range, the display controller moves the display range and calculates a distance from an end of the display range after the movement to the image portion outside the display range to display the notification image on the basis of the calculated distance.

7. An image forming apparatus comprising:

an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording material on the basis of a document file;

an image display configured to display a document image representing the document file;

an accepting unit configured to accept a pointing operation that points to a portion in the document image displayed in the image display;

an extracting unit configured to, upon acceptance of the pointing operation, extract each image portion surrounded by non-white pixels from the document image in response to the pointed portion of the document image being a which portion which is a portion of the document image where a ratio of white pixels to non-white pixels in an area specified by the pointing operation being greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and

a display controller configured to control the image display to center and display an image portion among the extracted image portions that is nearest the pointed portion.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

accepting pointing operation of pointing to a portion of a document image being displayed;

extracting each image portion surrounded by pixels other than white pixels from the document image, in response to the pointed portion of the document image being centered at a white portion of the document image is a portion of the document image having predetermined size and a ratio of white pixels to non-white pixels in a specified area centered at the pointed position that is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and

centering and displaying an image portion among the extracted image portions that is nearest the pointed portion.

9. A display control method comprising:

accepting pointing operation of pointing to a portion of a document image being displayed;

extracting each image portion surrounded by pixels other than white pixels from the document image, in response to the pointed portion of the document image being centered at a white portion of the document image which is a portion of the document image having predetermined size and a ratio of white pixels to non-white pixels in a specified area centered at the pointed position that is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value; and

centering and displaying an image portion among the extracted image portions that is nearest the pointed portion.