Electronic device and method for image control thereof

• US 10,560,409 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2016
• Issued: 02/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Young-Hwan, Jang, Dong-Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Quang N
• Application Number:
  US15/368,843
• Publication Number:
  US 20170187658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• Field of Search: 707104, 345634, 348262, 348 43, 382218, 715752, 715202, 715243, 396310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• 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 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/12 Use of DVI or HDMI protocol in interfaces along the display data pipeline
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/10 Multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images

Abstract

An electronic device can include a display, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, and a processor comprising processing circuitry. The processor can be configured to receive a plurality of images comprising a first image and a second image in a first order from an external electronic device using the communication circuitry of the communication interface, arrange the first image and the second image in a second order based on first property information corresponding to the first image and second property information corresponding to the second image, and arrange and display the first image and the second image in the second order through the display.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display;

a communication interface; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to;

receive, via a messaging service, at least two images in a first order and property information corresponding to the at least two images respectively from an external electronic device via the communication interface,

determine a second order based on at least part of the property information, and

arrange the at least two images via a messenger application in an application layer and display the at least two images in the second order through the display,

wherein the property information includes order information analyzed from the at least two images or metadata of the at least two images.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine the second order based on a character or a number contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images, respectively.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to determine the second order based on a change of at least one object contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images respectively.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein, the processor is configured to overlap at least part of the at least two images when displaying the at least two images in the second order on the display.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display at least two thumbnail images within a visual element in a shape of a bubble a via the messenger application of the electronic device,

wherein the at least two thumbnail images comprises a first thumbnail image and a second thumbnail image respectively corresponding to the at least two images,

wherein the first thumbnail image and the second thumbnail image are to be arranged within the visual element according to the second order.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the property information comprises a defined order corresponding to the external electronic device for the at least two images.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least part of the property information comprises at least one of:

a scene recognition result, a created time, and a file name of the at least two images.

8. A method of operating an electronic device, comprising:

receiving, via a messaging service, at least two images in a first order and property information corresponding to the at least two images respectively from an external electronic device using a communication interface functionally coupled to the electronic device;

determining a second order, based on at least part of the property information; and

arranging the at least two images in the second order via a messenger application in an application layer and displaying the at least two images in the second order via a display functionally coupled to the electronic device,

wherein the property information includes order information analyzed from the at least two images or metadata of the at least two images.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining the second order comprises:

determining the second order based on a character or a number contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images respectively; and

determining the second order based on change of at least one object contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images, respectively.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

determining the second order based on at least one of;

a defined order corresponding to the external electronic device for the at least two images, a scene recognition result, a created time, and a file name of the at least two images.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a communication interface;

a memory for storing at least two images; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to arrange the at least two images, via a messenger application in an application layer, in a first order based on property information corresponding to the at least two images respectively, and to send the at least two images in the first order and the property information to an external electronic device using the communication interface,

wherein the property information includes order information analyzed from the at least two images or metadata of the at least two images.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to determine the property information based on a character or a number contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images respectively.

13. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the property information comprises at least one of:

a defined order corresponding to the external electronic device for the at least two images, a scene recognition result, a created time, and a file name of the at least two images respectively.

14. A method of operating an electronic device, comprising:

arranging at least two images, via a messenger application in an application layer, in a first order based on property information corresponding to the at least two images respectively; and

sending the at least two images in the first order and the property information to an external electronic device using a communication interface,

wherein the property information includes order information analyzed from the at least two images or metadata of the at least two images.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein arranging the at least two images in the first order comprises:

determining the property information based on a character or a number contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images respectively; and

determining the property information based on change of at least one object contained in an image corresponding to the at least two images respectively.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining the order based on at least one of;

a defined order for the at least two images, a scene recognition result, a created time, and a file name of the at least two images respectively.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program which when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

arranging at least two images in a first order based on property information corresponding to the at least two images respectively,

sending the at least two images in the first order and the property information to an external electronic device,

receiving the at least two images in the first order and the property information, and arranging and displaying the at least two images in a second order, via a messenger application in an application layer, based on the property information,

wherein the property information includes order information analyzed from the at least two images or metadata of the at least two images.