Plan display device that displays enlarged/reduced image of original image with indication and plan display program for displaying same

• US 9,679,353 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2012
• Issued: 06/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Oki Data Infotech Corporation (OKI Electric Industry Company Limited)
• Inventors: Kawatani, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): PRINGLE-PARKER, JASON A
• Application Number:
  US14/368,680
• Publication Number:
  US 20150091908A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,667 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20104 Interactive definition of region of interest [ROI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20172 Image enhancement details
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20221 Image fusion; Image merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/04 Architectural design, interior design
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/36 Level of detail
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/20 Linear translation of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4092 Image resolution transcoding, e.g. by using client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

When enlarged/reduced images to be displayed based on a predetermined original image are displayed on a display screen, each of the enlarged/reduced images is created and displayed at a higher speed. Therefore, desired regions within an original image are designated, and desired images including the entire designated desired region are read from the original image, and stored separately from the original image. Then, an enlargement/reduction ratio with respect to the original image is acquired, and an enlarged/reduced original image obtained by enlarging/reducing the original image with the enlargement/reduction ratio in both a long-side direction and a short-side direction is created and displayed on a display screen. Further, enlarged/reduced desired images obtained by enlarging/reducing the desired images that are separately stored only in the long-side direction with the enlargement/reduction ratio are created and displayed in the vertical/horizontal target regions so as to be superimposed on the enlarged/reduced original image.

Claims

1. A drawing display device, comprising:

original image storage means for storing an original image having first and second sides that are perpendicular to each other, the first and second sides defining x and y axis directions of the original image, respectively;

region designation means for designating a desired region that is associated with a specified region of the original image;

desired image saving means for reading a desired image having an area corresponding to the entire area of the designated desired region from the original image and storing the desired image separately from the original image, the desired image being arranged at a position corresponding to a position of the specified region inside the original image along one of the x and y axis directions of the original image and having first and second sides that are perpendicular to each other;

enlargement/reduction ratio acquisition means for acquiring an enlargement/reduction ratio (P) with respect to the original image as the original image is enlarged/reduced;

enlarged/reduced original image creating means for forming an enlarged/reduced original image by changing magnification of the original image by the acquired enlargement/reduction ratio (P) in both the x axis direction of the original image corresponding to the first side of the original image and the y axis direction of the original image corresponding to the second side of the original image;

enlarged/reduced desired image creating means for forming an enlarged/reduced desired image by changing magnification of the desired image by the acquired enlargement/reduction ratio (P) at least in a first direction of the desired image corresponding to the first side of the desired image, in correspondence with the enlargement/reduction of the original image; and

display means for displaying the created enlarged/reduced original image and for displaying the enlarged/reduced desired image along an inner periphery of the display means at the position corresponding to the position of the specified region inside the original image along one of the x and y axis directions of the original image, wherein

the position of the enlarged/reduced desired image relative to the position of the specified region remains the same even after the enlargement/reduction of the original image and the desired image.

2. A drawing display device according to claim 1, wherein the desired region comprises a rectangular region.

3. A drawing display device according to claim 2, wherein the enlarged/reduced desired image creating means changes the magnification of the desired image by the acquired enlargement/reduction ratio (P) in the first direction of the desired region and by a fixed reduction ratio (S) in a second direction of the desired region.

4. A drawing display device according to claim 2 further comprising movement amount acquisition means for acquiring a movement amount for changing a display range of the enlarged/reduced original image,

wherein the display means displays the created enlarged/reduced original image and the enlarged/reduced desired image by moving the enlarged/reduced original image by the acquired movement amount and moving the enlarged/reduced desired image in the first direction of the enlarged/reduced image by a first direction component amount of the acquired movement amount.

5. A drawing display device according to claim 3, wherein:

the region designation means designates the desired region within the original image by designating the rectangular region of the enlarged/reduced desired image displayed by the display means; and

the reduction ratio (S) is an enlargement/reduction ratio of the enlarged/reduced desired image, the enlarged/reduced desired image being displayed by the display means when the rectangular region is designated by the region designation means, to the original image.

6. A drawing display device according to claim 2, wherein the desired image saving means reads and stores the desired image from the original image, an area of the desired image corresponding to an area defined by a width of the desired region in the second direction and a length of the entire area of the original image in the first direction.

7. A drawing display device according to claim 1, wherein the desired image saving means reads the desired image from raster data created with a predetermined resolution when the original image is vector data.

8. A drawing display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the desired image saving means performs mask processing for the read original image and then stores the resultant as the desired image; and

the display means displays the enlarged/reduced desired image superimposed on the enlarged/reduced original image.

9. A drawing display device according to claim 8, wherein the mask processing performed by the desired image saving means comprises processing for causing the enlarged/reduced original image on a lower layer to be transparent with respect to data representing a specific color.

10. A drawing display device according to claim 1, wherein the display means comprises enlarged/reduced desired image moving means for moving a display position of the enlarged/reduced desired image to another position within the enlarged/reduced original image.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium containing a drawing display program for causing a computer to implement:

a region designation function of designating a desired region that is associated with a specified region of an original image stored in an original image storage device, the original image having first and second sides that are perpendicular to each other and that define x and y axis directions of the original image, respectively;

a desired image saving function of reading a desired image having an area corresponding to the entire area of the designated desired region from the original image and storing the desired image separately from the original image, the desired image being arranged at a position corresponding to a position of the specified region inside the original image along one of the x and y axis directions of the original image and having first and second sides that are perpendicular to each other;

an enlargement/reduction ratio acquisition function of acquiring an enlargement/reduction ratio (P) with respect to the original image as the original image is enlarged/reduced;

an enlarged/reduced original image creating function of forming an enlarged/reduced original image by changing magnification of the original image by the acquired enlargement/reduction ratio (P) in both the x axis direction of the original image corresponding to the first side of the original image and the y axis direction of the original image corresponding to the second side of the original image;

an enlarged/reduced desired image creating function of forming an enlarged/reduced desired image by changing magnification of the desired image by the acquired enlargement/reduction ratio (P) at least in the first direction of the desired image corresponding to the first side of the desired image, in correspondence with the enlargement/reduction of the original image; and

a display function of displaying the created enlarged/reduced original image and for displaying the enlarged/reduced desired image along an inner periphery of the display means at the position corresponding to the position of the specified region inside the original image along one of the x and y axis directions of the original image, wherein

the position of the enlarged/reduced desired image relative to the position of the specified region remains the same even after the enlargement/reduction of the original image and the desired image.