Method for zooming image

• US 20080158191A1
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Inventors: Hu, Xiao-Guang, Yang, Guan-Li
• Application Number:
  US11/987,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20080158191A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for zooming image, and the method is implemented to an electronic device having a touch panel. When the touch panel of the electronic device detects that touch points on the touch panel are pressed simultaneously, and one of touch points is moved thereon, then the electronic device will determine whether to zoom in or out an image displayed on the electronic device according to the moving direction of the touch point, and determine to zoom in or out the image in a proportion according to the moving distance of the touch point. Thus, the image displayed on the electronic device can be zoomed in/out by the operation of touch points at the touch panel.

Claims

1. A method for zooming image being implemented to an electronic device having a touch panel, comprising:

displaying an image on the touch panel;

determining whether the touch panel detects a first touch point and a second touch point being pressed simultaneously;

determining whether the first touch point remains stationary on the touch panel and the second touch point is moved on the touch panel; and

determining to zoom in or out the image displayed on the touch panel according to the moving direction of the second touch point and zoom in or out the image in a proportion according to the moving distance of the second touch point.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step in which the electronic device determines whether the touch panel detects the first touch point and the second touch point simultaneously further comprises:

determining whether the first touch point and the second point on the touch panel are clicked simultaneously; and

if yes, displaying the image on the touch panel at a maximum resolution in compliance with the touch panel via the electronic device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step in which the electronic device determines whether the touch panel detects the first touch point and the second touch point simultaneously further comprises:

determining whether the touch panel detects a third touch point simultaneously; and

if yes, displaying the image with an original size on the touch panel.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein when the second touch point is moved on the touch panel, the method proceeds through the following steps:

obtaining the coordinates of the first touch point and the second touch point on the touch panel, respectively, and then defining the first touch point as a first start coordinate, the second touch point as a second start coordinate, respectively;

obtaining a current coordinate for the second touch point on the touch panel, and defining as a second end coordinate thereof;

calculating a moving distance according to the second start coordinate and the second end coordinate;

determining whether the second touch point is moved toward a first direction or toward a second direction opposite to the first direction;

calculating a zoom proportion according to the moving distance and the direction of moving;

when the second touch point is moved toward the first direction, zooming in the image displayed on the touch panel according to the zoom proportion; and

when the second touch point is moved toward the second direction, zooming out the image displayed on the touch panel according to the zoom proportion.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a central point of the touch panel is used as a basis for zooming in/out the image displayed on the touch panel.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the moving distance is resulted from dividing the pixels of movement between the second start coordinate and the second end coordinate by the maximum vertical pixels of the touch panel.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein when the second touch point is moved toward the first direction, the zoom proportion is a positive number;

and when the second touch point is moved toward the second direction, the zoom proportion is a negative number.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first direction is an upper direction, including directly or obliquely upper direction;

and the second direction is a lower direction, including directly or obliquely lower direction.

9. A method for zooming image being implemented to an electronic device having a touch panel, comprising:

displaying an image on the touch panel;

determining whether the touch panel detects two touch points on the touch panel being pressed simultaneously; and

if yes, displaying the image on the touch panel at a maximum resolution in compliance with the touch panel.

10. A method for zooming image being implemented to an electronic device having a touch panel, comprising:

displaying an image on the touch panel;

determining whether the touch panel detects three touch points on the touch panel being pressed simultaneously; and

if yes, displaying the image with original size thereof on the touch panel.