IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20090244094A1
• Filed: 03/27/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kato, Tetsuya, Matsutani, Tetsuro
• Granted Patent: US 8,370,739 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/620
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a first display unit which displays a material image and an original image in fast and second areas on a display device, respectively; a detection unit which detects a position on the display device designated from an outside; a relationship determining unit which determines a designated position in the first area and a designated position in the second areas and which determines a correspondence relationship between the first area and the second area based on the designated positions; an allocation region determining unit which determines an allocation region in the second area; a cut region determining unit which determines a cut region in the first area to correspond to the allocation region based on the correspondence relationship; and a second display unit which displays a partial image corresponding to the cut region in the allocation region to display a combined image.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a first display unit which displays a material image in a first area on a display device and displays an original image in a second area on the display device;

a detection unit which detects a position on the display device designated from an outside;

a relationship determining unit which sets a designated position in the first area detected by the detection unit as a first reference position, and sets a designated position in the second area detected by the detection unit as a second reference position, and which determines a correspondence relationship between each position in the first area and each position in the second area such that the first reference position and the second reference position correspond to each other;

an allocation region determining unit which determines an allocation region in the second area based on a detection result of the detection unit;

a cut region determining unit which determines a cut region in the first area to correspond to the allocation region determined by the allocation region determining unit based on the correspondence relationship determined by the relationship determining unit; and

a second display unit which displays a partial image cut from the material image based on the cut region determined by the cut region determining unit in the allocation region determined by the allocation region determining unit to display a combined image.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the allocation region determining unit determines a region obtained by adding a width to a designated position in the second area detected by the detection unit, as the allocation region, and updates the allocation region to include a locus of the designated position when the designated position detected by the detection unit is moved, and

wherein the second display unit updates a display of the combined image based on the updated allocation region as the allocation region is updated by the allocation region determining unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first area position determining unit which determines a position in the first area corresponding to the designated position in the second area based on the correspondence relationship determined by the relationship determining unit; and

a mark display unit which displays a mark indicating the position determined by the first area position determining unit, in the first area.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, fiuxher comprising:

a first area size regulating unit which determines a position in the first area, at which a predetermined operation is performed, as a first size regulation position of the first area; and

a second area size determining unit which determines a position in the second area, at which a predetermined operation is performed, as a second size regulation position of the second area,

wherein the relationship determining unit determines a magnification applied to the partial image based on a relationship between a first distance from the first reference position to the first size regulation position in the first area and a second distance from the second reference position to the second size regulation position in the second area, and

wherein the second display unit displays the partial image, a size of which is reduced or enlarged according to the magnification determined by the relationship determining unit, in the allocation region.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the relationship determining unit determines the magnification based on the relationship between the first distance and the second distance in one direction.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a partial image moving unit which when the detection unit detects that a position in the second area is designated from an outside in a state where the partial image is displayed in the allocation region of the second area, moves the displayed partial image to the designated position while maintaining a shape and a size of the partial image.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a relationship updating unit which sets, as a new reference position of the first area, a designated position in the first area detected by the detection unit in a state where the partial image is displayed in the allocation region, and updates the correspondence relationship such that the new reference position corresponds to the second reference position of die second area; and

a cut region redetermining unit which redetermines a cut region in the first area to correspond to the allocation region based on the correspondence relationship updated by the relationship updating unit,

wherein the second display unit displays a partial image cut from the material image based on the cut region redetermined by the cut region redetermining unit in the allocation region.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an allocation position changing unit which changes a position of the allocation region based on a designated position in the second area detected by the detection unit in a state where the partial image is displayed in the allocation region; and

a cut region redetermining unit which redetermines a cut region in the first area to correspond to the allocation region, the position of which is changed by the allocation position changing unit, based on the correspondence relationship determined by the relationship determining unit,

wherein the second display unit displays a partial image cut from the material image based on the cut region redetermined by the cut region redetermining unit in the allocation region, the position of which is changed.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second display unit displays an image based on data obtained by combining an original image layer corresponding to the original image with a partial image layer corresponding to the partial image, in the second area,

the image processing apparatus further comprising a managing unit which, when a plurality of partial image layers are provided, manages a positional relationship between the original image layer and each of the partial image layers individually.

10. A computer-readable medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer including a detection unit which detects a position on a display device designated from an outside, the computer program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to perform operations comprising:

displaying a material image in a first area on the display device, and displaying an original image in a second area on the display device;

setting a designated position in the first area detected by the detection unit as a first reference position, and setting a designated position in the second area detected by the detection unit as a second reference position;

determining a correspondence relationship between each position in the first area and each position in the second area such that the first reference position and the second reference position correspond to each other;

determining an allocation region in the second area based on a detection result of the detection unit;

determines a cut region in the first area to correspond to the allocation region based on the correspondence relationship; and

displaying a partial image cut from the material image based on the cut region, in the allocation region to display a combined image.