APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TOUCH SCREEN EDITING OF DIGITAL IMAGES

• US 20090322791A1
• Filed: 09/29/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: WU, WEN-YI
• Application Number:
  US12/240,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20090322791A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/660
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An apparatus for displaying various aspects of images according to a user'"'"'s operation includes a touch screen display on which an image is displayed, a compressing module supporting a compressing mode for displaying a portion of an image with a compressed appearance, a stretch module for displaying a portion of an image with a stretched appearance, an object insertion module for adorned a displayed image with props displayed on the touch screen display; and a doodle module for adding doodles to a displayed image.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a touch screen display on which an image can be displayed;

a compressing module supporting a compressing mode in which a portion of an image displayed on the touch screen display can be displayed with a compressed appearance;

a stretch module supporting a stretch mode in which a portion of an image displayed on the touch screen display can be displayed with a stretched appearance;

an object insertion module supporting an object insertion mode in which a displayed image is capable of being displayed with props; and

a doodle module supporting a doodle mode in which a displayed image is capable of having doodling displayed upon.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the compressing module, the stretch module, the object insertion module, and the doodle module each correspond to a virtual button on the touch screen display;

wherein when a virtual button is pressed, the corresponding module is enabled.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, further comprising a mechanical button for enabling or disabling the touch sensitivity of the touch screen display;

wherein the virtual buttons are displayed on the touch screen display when the touch sensitivity of the touch screen is enabled.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a storage module for storing the image, and a processor for instructing the touch screen display to display the image.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the touch screen display is a part of a digital data photo frame.

6. A method for touch screen editing of a displayed image, comprising:

using a compressing editing mode to display a pressed portion of the displayed image with a compressed appearance;

using a stretch editing mode to display a traced portion of the displayed image with a stretched appearance;

using an object insertion mode to display a prop with the displayed image; and

using doodle editing mode to add doodles to the displayed image.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of displaying the image with a compressed appearance comprises allowing a window of time in which the touch screen display 10 is responsive to touch in the compressing mode.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of displaying the image with a stretched appearance comprises stretching pixels of a traced region of the displayed image until a predetermined stretch length is exceeded.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the predetermined stretched length is 0-20% of a width of the touch screen display.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the list of props includes a list of hair colors and styles, eyeglasses, clothes, smile lips, and laugh lips which can be applied to the image.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the step of showing the photo with the doodles comprising providing different fonts and colors for the doodles being added to the image.