Image display method, image display program, and information device

• US 20050156946A1
• Filed: 03/15/2005
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Nakano, Yutaka
• Application Number:
  US11/079,413
• Publication Number:
  US 20050156946A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/145 related to small screens
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/22 characterised by the display of characters or indicia using display control signals derived from coded signals representing the characters or indicia, e.g. with a character-code memory

Abstract

An extraction image is extracted from the image displayed on a display screen. The position of a highlighted portion of the extracted image of the image is determined. The extracted image is enlargedly displayed in the position of the highlighted portion so that the area where the extracted image is present may be transparent with respect to the image and enlarged.

Claims

1. An image display method for highlighting an extracted image on a display screen of an information device, comprising:

a step extracting an image whose display form is to be changed, as an extracted image from an image on the display screen;

a step determining a highlight position of the extracted image on the image; and

a display step displaying the extracted image in the highlight position on the display screen such that an area where the extracted image exists turns see-through relative to the image and the extracted image is enlarged.

2. The image display method according to claim 1, wherein the image comprises a character image.

3. The image display method according to claim 2, wherein the display step includes displaying a portion in an area outside a character portion in the extracted character image in a see-through form relative to the document image.

4. The image display method according to claim 3, further comprising a display attribute changing step changing display attributes such that the extracted character image is highlighted relative to the document image on the display screen.

5. The image display method according to claim 4, wherein the display attribute changing step includes determining a display color, a gray scale of the display color, and a font of at least one of the extracted character image and the display screen such that the extracted character image is highlighted.

6. The image display method according to claim 5, further comprising a range specifying step specifying an extract range of an image as the extracted character image from the document image.

7. The image display method according to claim 6, wherein the range specifying step includes specifying a predetermined range of a character image in the document image as the extract range.

8. An image display program for highlighting an extracted image on a display screen of an information device, comprising:

a step extracting an image whose display form is to be changed, as an extracted image from an image on the display screen;

a step determining a highlight position of the extracted image on the image; and

a display s of displaying the extracted image in the highlight position on the display screen such that an area where the extracted image exists turns see-through relative to the image and the extracted image is enlarged.

9. The image display program according to claim 8, wherein the image comprises a character image.

10. The image display program according to claim 9, wherein the display step includes displaying a portion in an area outside a character portion in the extracted character image in a see-through form relative to the document image.

11. The image display program according to claim 10, further comprising a display attribute changing step changing display attributes such that the extracted character image is highlighted relative to the document image on the display screen.

12. The image display program according to claim 11, wherein the display attribute changing step includes determining a display color, a gray scale of the display color, and a font of at least one of the extracted character image and the display screen such that the extracted character image is highlighted.

13. The image display program according to claim 12, further comprising a range specifying step specifying an extract range of an image as the extracted character image from the document image.

14. The image display program according to claim 13, wherein the range specifying step includes specifying a predetermined range of a character image in the document image as the extract range.

15. An information apparatus for highlighting an extracted image on a display screen, comprising:

extract unit extracting an image whose display form is to be changed, as an extracted image from an image on the display screen;

determine unit determining a highlight position of the extracted image on the image; and

display unit displaying the extracted image in the highlight position on the display screen such that an area where the extracted image exists turns see-through relative to the image and the extracted image is enlarged.

16. The information apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the image comprises a character image.

17. The information apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the display unit displays a portion in an area outside a character portion in the extracted character image in a see-through form relative to the document image.

18. The information apparatus according to claim 16 or 17, wherein the display unit displays the extracted character image in an enlarged form relative to the character image of the document image.

19. The information apparatus according to claim 18, further comprising display attribute changing unit changing display attributes such that the extracted character image is highlighted relative to the document image on the display screen.

20. The information apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the display attribute changing unit determines a display color, a gray scale of the display color, and a font of at least one of the extracted character image and the display screen such that the extracted character image is highlighted.

21. The information apparatus according to claim 20, further comprising range specifying unit specifying an extract range of an image as the extracted character image from the document image.

22. The information apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the range specifying unit specifies a predetermined range of a character image in the document image as the extract range.

23. An information apparatus highlighting an extracted image on a display screen, comprising:

a unit extracting an image whose display form is to be changed, as an extracted image from an image on the display screen;

a unit determining a highlight position of the extracted image on the image; and

a display unit displaying the extracted image in the highlight position on the display screen such that an area where the extracted image exists turns see-through relative to the image and the extracted image is enlarged.