Image display and storage apparatus, method and medium

• US 8,022,968 B2
• Filed: 10/14/2010
• Issued: 09/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Sung-guy, Kim, Nam-woo, Kim, Seong-woon, Yim, Yill-myung, Yoo, Byung-in, Yi, Kwon ju, Kim, Yeun-bae
• Primary Examiner(s): Sajous; Wesner
• Application Number:
  US12/904,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20110032271A1
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• Field of Search: 345/428, 345/581, 345/635, 345/660, 345/619, 345/670, 345547-548, 348/207.1, 348/556, 348/563, 348564-565, 348567-568, 382/254, 382/276, 382/298, 382/305, 715/790, 715/800, 715/815, 715/838
• US Class Current: 345/635
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/3875 combined with enlarging or reducing enlarging or reducing per se H04N1/393
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/6011 with simulation on a subsidiary picture reproducer H04N1/622 takes precedence; matching two or more picture reproducers H04N1/6052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/634 Warning indications

Abstract

An image display and storage device, method, and medium to process an original image and generate a main image so that the original image does not overlap a sub image, and store the original image instead of the main image when the main image and the sub image are displayed. The device includes an image processor to receive an image, and to generate a display image and a storage image using the received image, a display unit to receive the display image from the image processor, and to display the display image, and an image storing unit to receive the storage image from the image processor and to store the image.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

an image processor to generate a first image to be displayed without overlapping a second image by processing an third image which would otherwise overlap the second image when displayed, the first image having a size that is smaller than the third image, wherein an aspect ratio of the third image is changed to generate the first image;

a display unit to display the first image and the second image together, wherein the first image and the second image do not overlap when displayed; and

a storage unit to store the third image.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display unit includes a display panel on which the first image is displayed in an area of the display panel and the second image is displayed in a different area of the display panel.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the third image is stored in the storage unit as a photographed image.

4. A display device, comprising:

an image processor to generate a first image to be displayed without overlapping a second image by processing an third image which would otherwise overlap the second image when displayed, the first image having a size that is smaller than the third image, wherein an image size of the third image is reduced to generate the first image;

a display unit to display the first image and the second image together, wherein the first image and the second image do not overlap when displayed; and

a storage unit to store the third image.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the display unit includes a display panel on which the first image is displayed in an area of the display panel and the second image is displayed in a different area of the display panel.

6. The display device of claim 4, wherein the third image is stored in the storage unit as a photographed image.

7. A display method, comprising:

generating, by an image processor, a first image to be displayed without overlapping a second image by processing a third image which would otherwise overlap the second image when displayed, the first image having a size that is smaller than the third image, wherein an aspect ratio of the third image is changed to generate the first image; and

displaying the first image and the second image together wherein the first image and the second image do not overlap when displayed.

8. The display method of claim 7, wherein the third image is stored in a storage unit as a photographed image.

9. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer readable code that, when executed by a processor, performs the display method of claim 7.

10. A display method, comprising:

generating, by an image processor, a first image to be displayed without overlapping a second image by processing a third image which would otherwise overlap the second image when displayed, the first image having a size that is smaller than the third image, wherein an image size of the third image is reduced to generate the first image; and

displaying the first image and the second image together wherein the first image and the second image do not overlap when displayed.

11. The display method of claim 10, wherein the third image is stored in a storage unit as a photographed image.

12. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer readable code that, when executed by a processor, performs the display method of claim 10.