METHOD AND APPARATUS OF TRANSFORMING IMAGES

• US 20150062143A1
• Filed: 05/05/2014
• Published: 03/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Hansub, Jang, Yoonkyu, Kang, Dongwook, Lee, Juyeong, Hong, Myunggon
• Application Number:
  US14/269,580
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062143A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/589
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/00 General purpose image data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/001 Arbitration of resources in a display system, e.g. control of access to frame buffer by video controller and/or main processor
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/37 Details of the operation on graphic patterns G09G5/38 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A method and an apparatus of processing an image are provided. The method of processing an image using an electronic apparatus includes obtaining at least one image; determining at least one piece of information from among property information of the at least one image, status information of the electronic apparatus, environment information related to the electronic apparatus, or user information; and determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed based on the at least one piece of information.

Claims

1. A method of processing an image using an electronic apparatus, the method comprising

obtaining at least one image;

determining at least one piece of information from among property information of the at least one image, status information of the electronic apparatus, environment information related to the electronic apparatus, or user information; and

determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed based on the at least one piece of information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises:

when the at least one piece of information is in a specified range, transforming the at least one image and outputting the transformed image; and

when the at least one piece of information is not in a specified range, outputting the at least one image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed according to a degree of transformation.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises automatically generating the degree of transformation based on the at least one piece of information, or receiving the degree of transformation by a user input.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the degree of transformation comprises determining the degree of transformation using brightness information of a display of the electronic apparatus.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein determining the degree of transformation comprises determining a degree of transformation set by a user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises, when a transformed image corresponding to the at least one image has been pre-stored, outputting the pre-stored transformed image.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises:

determining, using the property information of the at least one image, whether the at least one image is a moving image or a still image;

when the at least one image is a moving image, not transforming the at least one image; and

when the at least one image is a still image, transforming the at least one image.

9. The method of claim 3, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises varying the degree of transformation with at least one of an illuminance, an intensity of an ultraviolet ray, or an intensity of an infrared ray from the environment information.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises:

determining a state of a user of the electronic apparatus using the user information, wherein the state is a standstill state or a moving state;

when the user is in the standstill state, transforming the at least one image and outputting the transformed image; and

when the user is in the moving state, outputting the at least one image.

11. The method of claim 3, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises varying the degree of transformation with visual information of the user information.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one image comprises a first image and a second image, and

determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed comprises transforming the first image and not transforming the second image.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed includes adjusting brightness of a display of the electronic apparatus according to a result of the determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed.

14. An electronic apparatus comprising:

an obtaining module configured to obtain at least one image;

an information module configured to determine at least one piece of information from among property information of the at least one image, status information of the electronic apparatus, environment information related to the electronic apparatus, or user information; and

a processing module configured to determine whether the at least one image is to be transformed based on the at least one piece of information.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module is set up to determine the state of the electronic apparatus using the status information of the electronic apparatus, and when the electronic apparatus is in a standstill state, to transform the at least one image and to output the transformed image, and when the electronic apparatus is in a moving state, to output the at least one image.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module is set up to determine the state of the electronic apparatus using the status information of the electronic apparatus, to determine the state of a user of the electronic apparatus using the user information, and to determine a degree of transformation based on the state of at least one of the electronic apparatus or the user of the electronic apparatus, wherein the state is a standstill state or a moving state.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the at least one image comprises a first image and a second image, and the processing module is set up to transform the first image based on a first transformation degree, and to transform the second image based on a second transformation degree.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processing module is set up to select one of at least one relation information with respect to the at least one piece of information and the degree of transformation, based on a user input.

19. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the processing module provides a user interface that allows a user to set up a transformation mode or a degree of transformation of the at least one image.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising a memory that stores the transformed image or the degree of transformation of the at least one image.

21. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon, a computer program for executing a method of processing an image using an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining at least one image;

determining at least one piece of information from among property information of the at least one image, status information of the electronic apparatus, environment information related to the electronic apparatus, or user information; and

determining whether the at least one image is to be transformed based on the at least one piece of information.