Image processing apparatus, method of displaying image, image display program, and recording medium having image display program for displaying image recorded thereon

• US 8,504,944 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 08/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Tadashi
• Primary Examiner(s): SONG, DAEHO D
• Application Number:
  US13/053,510
• Publication Number:
  US 20110246948A1
• Time in Patent Office: 868 Days
• Field of Search: 345/178, 345/173, 715/702, 715/846, 715/835, 715/863, 715/860, 715/838
• US Class Current: 715/846
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0428 by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: an image display control unit controlling an image display on a display screen; an image generating unit generating a question image including a question and option buttons configured by icons that can be arbitrarily selected for the question; a position detecting unit detecting a position of a pointer present on the display screen from imaging data acquired by imaging the display screen; a position information storing unit storing positions of the icons when the question image is displayed on the display screen; and a control unit specifying an icon out of the icons selected by the pointer based on the position of the pointer and calibrating the position of the pointer based on the position of the icon, which is stored in the position information storing unit, corresponding to the icon specified to have been selected.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an image display control unit to control an image display on a display screen;

an image generating unit to generate a question image including a question and option buttons configured by a plurality of icons that can be arbitrarily selected for the question;

a position detecting unit to detect a position of a pointer on the display screen from imaging data acquired by imaging the display screen;

a position information storing unit to store positions of the plurality of icons when the question image generated by the image generating unit is displayed on the display screen; and

a control unit to specify an icon out of the plurality of icons selected by the pointer based at least in part on the position of the pointer detected by the position detecting unit and to calibrate the position of the pointer that is detected by the position detecting unit based at least in part on the position of the icon, which is stored in the position information storing unit, corresponding to the icon specified to have been selected.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the question is different from a calibration question that is used for calibration.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit performs a setting process corresponding to the question and the selected icon and performs a calibration process in parallel with the setting process.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit acquires screen size information of the display screen and allows the image generating unit to change sizes of the option buttons in accordance with the screen size information.

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

an acceleration sensor; and

an angle sensor,

wherein, in a case where a mounting position of the image processing apparatus is detected to deviate from a reference position of the display screen based at least in part on outputs of the acceleration sensor and the angle sensor, the control unit allows the image generating unit to generate the question image and displays the question image on the display screen.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising at least one imaging unit to image the display screen.

7. A method of displaying an image comprising the steps of:

generating a question image including a question and option buttons configured by a plurality of icons that can be arbitrarily selected for the question by using an image generating unit included in an image processing apparatus;

detecting a position of a pointer on the display screen from imaging data acquired by imaging the display screen on which an image display is controlled by an image display control unit included in the image processing apparatus by using a position detecting unit that is included in the image processing apparatus;

specifying an icon out of the plurality of icons selected by the pointer based on the position of the pointer, which is detected by the position detecting unit by using a control unit included in the image processing apparatus; and

calibrating the position of the pointer, which corresponds to the selected icon, detected by the position detecting unit based at least in part on the position of the icon when the question image, which is stored in a position information storing unit included in the image processing apparatus, generated by the image generating unit is displayed on the display screen.

8. An image display program that allows a computer to function as:

an image display control means for controlling an image display on a display screen;

an image generating means for generating a question image including a question and option buttons configured by a plurality of icons that can be arbitrarily selected for the question;

a position detecting means for detecting a position of a pointer on the display screen from imaging data acquired by imaging the display screen;

a position information storing means for storing positions of the plurality of icons when the question image generated by the image generating means is displayed on the display screen; and

a control means for specifying an icon out of the plurality of icons selected by the pointer based at least in part on the position of the pointer detected by the position detecting means and calibrating the position of the pointer that is detected by the position detecting means based at least in part on the position of the icon, which is stored in the position information storing means, corresponding to the selected icon.

9. A recording medium on which the image display program according to claim 8 is recorded.