Image processing apparatus and image processing program for selecting and displaying image data

• US 8,804,191 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2007
• Issued: 08/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Watanabe, Toshinari, Ikeno, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Tieu, Benny Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chacko, Sunil
• Application Number:
  US11/740,167
• Publication Number:
  US 20070253034A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,666 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.2, 358/448, 358/1.9, 358/400, 358/1.13
• US Class Current: 358/1.9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/13 Digital output to plotter ; Cooperation and interconnection of the plotter with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00384 Key input means, e.g. buttons or keypads electromechanical details of key input means in general H01H13/00
• 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 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: a key operation unit including a plurality of keys; a display screen; a first storage unit that stores an image data; and a processor that performs a processing. The processing performed by the processor includes displaying a first image corresponding to the image data on the display screen; setting an upper end and a lower end in the first image displayed on the display screen based on a key input from the key operation unit to designate a range between the upper end and the lower end in the first image; selecting image data corresponding to the designated range in the first image; and displaying a second image corresponding to the selected image data on the display screen.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a key operation unit comprising a plurality of keys;

a display screen having a rectangular shape, the display screen comprising an upper side end and a lower side end opposite to each other;

a first storage unit that stores an image data; and

a processor that performs a processing,

wherein the processing performed by the processor comprises;

displaying a first image corresponding to the image data on the display screen;

setting one of an upper end and a lower end in the first image displayed on the display screen in response to a first key input from the key operation unit, and thereafter setting, without changing the one of the upper end and the lower end, the other of the upper end and the lower end in the first image displayed on the display screen in response to a second key input different from the first key input from the key operation unit;

designating a range from the set upper end to the set lower end in the first image and having a corresponding left end and a corresponding right end in the first image without setting the left end and the right end;

selecting image data corresponding to the designated range in the first image; and

displaying a portion of the first image defined by the set upper end, the set lower end, the corresponding left end and the corresponding right end, as a second image on the display screen.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first storage unit stores image data information comprising the image data, and

wherein the processing performed by the processor further comprises extracting the image data from the image data information stored in the first storage unit.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the displaying the second image comprises enlarging and displaying the second image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the second image is enlarged so that a width of the enlarged second image matches with a width of a display area of the display screen.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the second image is enlarged so that the second image is entirely displayed on the display area.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein if a ratio of a width of the second image in a first direction with respect to a width of the second image in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction is smaller than a ratio of a width of the display area in the first direction with respect to a width of the display area in the second direction, the second image is enlarged so that the width of the second image in the second direction matches the width of the display area in the second direction.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 3,

wherein the plurality of keys comprise a magnification setting key which sets a display magnification, and

wherein the second image is enlarged at the display magnification set by the magnification setting key.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display screen comprises a plurality of areas obtained by dividing a longer side of the display screen,

wherein the first image is displayed in one of the plurality of areas, and

wherein the second image is displayed in another one of the plurality of areas.

9. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing performed by the processor further comprises selecting one of a first display mode in which the first image and the second image are displayed at the same time and a second display mode in which only the second image is displayed.

10. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing performed by the processor further comprises scrolling the second image when the second image is at least in part larger than a display area of the display screen.

11. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a lower side end of the first image displayed on the display screen is set as the lower end in the first image when the upper end in the first image is set without specifically designating the lower end in the first image.

12. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein an upper side end of the first image displayed on the display screen is set as the upper end in the first image when the lower end in the first image is set without specifically designating the upper end in the first image.

13. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the processing performed by the processor further comprises setting an upper end and a lower end in the second image, and displaying a third image based on an image data corresponding to a range between the upper end and the lower end in the second image.

14. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of keys comprises:

a cursor key which designates a position in an upper-lower direction in the first image; and

a determination key which determines a position designated by the cursor key,

wherein a first position designated by the cursor keys when the determination key is operated is set as one of the upper end and the lower end in the first image, and

wherein a second position, which is different from the first position and designated by the cursor key is set as the other one of the upper end and the lower end in the first image when the determination key is operated.

15. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein when a previous image previously selected from the image data is displayed on the display screen, the second image is displayed adjacent to the previous image.

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

a second storage unit that stores the selected image data; and

an output unit that outputs the selected image data stored in the second storage unit to a predetermined output destination,

wherein when the second storage unit stores a previous data, the second storage unit stores the selected image data successive to the previous data.

17. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform operations comprising:

displaying a first image corresponding to an image data stored in a storage unit on a display screen;

setting one of an upper end and a lower end in the first image displayed on the display screen in response to a first key input from a key operation unit, and thereafter setting, without changing the one of the upper end and the lower end, the other of the upper end and the lower end in the first image displayed on the display screen in response to a second key input different from the first key input from the key operation unit;

designating a range from the set upper end to the set lower end in the first image and having a corresponding left end and a corresponding right end in the first image without setting the left end and the right end;

selecting image data corresponding to the designated range in the first image; and

displaying a portion of the first image defined by the set upper end, the set lower end, the corresponding left end and the corresponding right end, as a second image on the display screen.

18. The computer program product according to claim 17,

wherein the storage unit stores a plurality of image data comprising the image data, and

wherein the operations further comprises extracting the image data from the plurality of image data stored in the storage unit.

19. The computer program product according to claim 17,

wherein the displaying the second image comprising enlarging and displaying the second image.