Electronic device and method for editing image in electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10334173-B2
Application number	US-201615343767-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2016
Priority date	Nov 6, 2015
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a storage configured to store information about a plurality of color assignment areas included in an image editing tool displayed on a screen of the electronic device, a display configured to display the image editing tool including the plurality of color assignment areas on the screen of the electronic device, and a controller configured to run a preset application installed in the electronic device in response to an input related to color extraction, and display a color selected in at least one area of an execution screen of the application in the color assignment areas of the image editing tool.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a storage configured to store information about a plurality of color assignment areas included in an image editing tool displayed on a screen of the electronic device;
a display; and
a controller configured to:
display, on the display, the image editing tool including the plurality of color assignment areas;
run an image editing application and display a first screen according to execution of the image editing application including the image editing tool on a first region of the display,
run a first application installed in the electronic device in response to a first input related to color extraction and display a second screen according to execution of the first application on a second region of the display,
control the display to display a color selected in the second screen in a preset area from among the plurality of color assignment areas included in the first screen,
in response to a second input for running a second application, run the second application installed in the electronic device and display a third screen according to execution of the second application with image editing tool including the color selected in the second screen, and
in response to a third input for applying the color selected in the second screen to the third screen, display a fourth screen generated by applying the color selected in the second screen to the third screen,

wherein the first application comprises at least one of a camera-related application or a Gallery application capable of reading a plurality of images stored in the electronic device, and
wherein the first input related to color extraction includes a touch input for selecting an icon corresponding to the first application, and wherein the icon is included in the first screen.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the image editing tool is displayed in the form of a palette.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to a selected area or pixel of an image that is captured by a camera depending on execution of the camera-related application.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to a selected area or pixel of a preview image that is captured by a camera depending on execution of the camera-related application.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to an area or pixel selected in at least one image that is displayed on the second screen depending on execution of the Gallery application.

6. A method for editing an image in an electronic device, the method comprising:
running an image editing application;
displaying a first screen according to execution of the image editing application including an image editing tool including a plurality of color assignment areas on a first region of the electronic device;
running a first application installed in the electronic device in response to a first input related to color extraction;
displaying a second screen according to execution of the first application on a second region of the electronic device;
in response to a selection of a color in the second screen, displaying the selected color in a preset area from among the plurality of color assignment areas included in the first screen,
in response to a second input for running a second application, running the second application installed in the electronic device, and displaying a third screen according to execution of the second application with image editing tool including the color selected in the second screen; and
in response to a third input for applying the color selected in the second screen to the third screen, displaying a fourth screen generated by applying the color selected in the second screen to the third screen,
wherein the first application comprises at least one of a camera-related application or a Gallery application capable of reading a plurality of images stored in the electronic device, and
wherein the first input related to color extraction includes a touch input for selecting an icon corresponding to the first application, and wherein the icon is included in the first screen.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the image editing tool is displayed in the form of a palette.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to a selected area or pixel of an image that is captured by a camera depending on execution of the camera-related application.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to a selected area or pixel of a preview image that is captured by a camera depending on execution of the camera-related application.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the selected color comprises a color corresponding to an area or pixel selected in at least one image that is displayed on the second screen depending on execution of the Gallery application.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Jin Young-Tae
• Kim So-Yeon
• Kim Hyo-Jung
• Song Dae-Woong
• Lee Soo-Jung
• Lim Eo-Jin
• Hwang Seong-Yeon

Classifications

• G06T11/10 Primary

  Texturing; Colouring; Generation of textures or colours (retouching, inpainting or scratch removal G06T5/77) · CPC title

• H04N2201/0098

  User intervention not otherwise provided for, e.g. placing documents, responding to an alarm · CPC title

• H04N2201/0096

  Portable devices · CPC title

• G06T11/001

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N5/23293 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic