Method and apparatus for adjusting size of displayed objects

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9323432-B2
Application number	US-201313774371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2013
Priority date	Feb 24, 2012
Publication date	Apr 26, 2016
Grant date	Apr 26, 2016

Abstract

A method and apparatus for adjusting sizes of objects displayed on a screen are provided. The a method includes recognizing one or more objects appearing on the screen, displaying guides indicating regions of the recognized objects on the screen, receiving a selection command for one of the recognized objects, and adjusting, upon reception of a size adjustment command, a size of the region of the selected object with respect to a first axis of the guide associated with the selected object or a second axis thereof perpendicular to the first axis, and displaying the size-adjusted region.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for object size adjustment on a screen, the method comprising:
recognizing one or more objects appearing on the screen, and displaying guides indicating regions of the recognized objects on the screen;
receiving a selection command for selecting at least one object of the recognized objects;
grouping, if two or more objects are selected by the selection command, the two or more selected objects into a single combined object;
displaying a guide indicating a region of the single combined object;
adjusting, using the guide associated with the selected at least one object, according to a received size adjustment command, a size of the region of the selected at least one object with respect to a first axis of the guide associated with the selected at least one object or a second axis thereof perpendicular to the first axis;
displaying the size-adjusted region;
receiving an adjustment cancel command comprising an input on the outside of the guide after the displaying of the size-adjusted region; and
restoring an original size of the size-adjusted region and displaying the region at the original size in response to the adjustment cancel command,
wherein the selected at least one object comprises the single combined object,
wherein the region is adjusted with respect to one of the first axis and second axis according to a size of the screen and is adjusted with respect to the other of the first axis and second axis according to a size ratio of the first axis and the second axis of the guide, and
wherein the adjusting of the size of the region comprises enlarging, after treating a longer one of the first axis and the second axis as a reference axis, the region in accordance with the screen size in the direction of the reference axis, and displaying the enlarged region.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjusting of the size of the region comprises:
enlarging the region while maintaining a width-to-height ratio of the corresponding guide, and
displaying the enlarged region.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein each object comprises a distinguishable thing, entity, or region of the screen.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein each guide comprises at least one of a corner bracket, a solid line, a dotted line, a rectangle, a square, and a circle.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the guide associated with the at least one selected object demarcates the second region or an area of the at least one selected object.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first axis and second axis are each parallel with boundaries of the screen.

7. A method for object size adjustment on a screen, the method comprising:
recognizing one or more objects appearing on a screen;
receiving a first selection command for a first region on the screen;
recognizing the selected first region as an object, and displaying a guide indicating the recognized first region on the screen;
receiving a second selection command for a second region of the recognized first region;
grouping, if two or more objects are selected by the second selection command, the two or more selected objects into a single combined object;
displaying a guide indicating the second region of the single combined object;
adjusting, using the guide associated with the second region, according to a received size adjustment command, a size of the recognized second region with respect to a first axis of the guide associated with the recognized second region or a second axis thereof perpendicular to the first axis;
displaying the size-adjusted second region;
receiving an adjustment cancel command comprising an input on the outside of the guide associated with the second region after the displaying of the size-adjusted second region; and
restoring an original size of the size-adjusted second region and displaying the restored size-adjusted second region at the original size in response to the adjustment cancel command,
wherein the second region comprises the single combined object,
wherein the second region is adjusted with respect to one of the first axis and second axis according to a size of the screen and is adjusted with respect to the other of the first axis and second axis according to a size ratio of the first axis and the second axis of the second region, and
wherein the adjusting of the size of the second region comprises enlarging, after treating a longer one of the first axis and the second axis as a reference axis, the second region in accordance with the screen size in the direction of the reference axis, and displaying the enlarged region.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the selected second region is a distinguishable region having a length in the first axis direction and a length in the second axis direction.

9. An apparatus for object size adjustment on a screen, the apparatus comprising:
a display unit configured to display original images and size-adjusted images;
a control unit configured to:
control a process of recognizing one or more objects appearing on the display unit,
control the display unit to display guides indicating regions of the recognized objects,
receive a selection command for selecting at least one object of the recognized objects,
group, if two or more objects are selected by the selection command, the two or more selected objects into a single combined object,
control the display unit to display a guide indicating a region of the single combined object,
adjust, using the guide associated with the selected at least one object, according to a received size adjustment command, a size of the region of the selected at least one object with respect to a first axis of the guide associated with the selected at least one object or a second axis thereof perpendicular to the first axis,
control the display unit to display the size-adjusted region,
restore, if an adjustment cancel command comprising an input on the outside of the guide is received after the displaying of the size-adjusted region, an original size of the size-adjusted region, and
display the region at the original size,

wherein the selected at least one object comprises the single combined object,
wherein the region is adjusted with respect to one of the first axis and second axis according to a size of the screen and is adjusted with respect to the other of the first axis and second axis according to a size ratio of the first axis and the second axis of the guide, and
wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust the size of the region by enlarging, after treating a longer one of the first axis and second axis as a reference axis, the region in accordance with the screen size of the display unit in the direction of the reference axis and displaying the enlarged region.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the control unit is further configured to adjust the size of the selected region by enlarging the region while maintaining a width-to-height ratio of the corresponding guide and displaying the enlarged region.

11. An apparatus for object size adjustment on a screen, the apparatus comprising:
a display unit configured to display original images and size-adjusted images;
a control unit configured to:
control a process of recognizing one or more objects appearing on the display unit,
recognize, upon reception of a first selection command for a first region of the display unit, the selected first region as a first object and displaying a guide indicating the first object on the display unit,
receive a second selection command for a second region of the recognized first region,
group, if two or more objects are selected by the second selection command, the two or more selected objects

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kang Jiyoung
• Kwak Sejin
• Park Mijung
• Oh Saegee
• Lee Chihoon

Classifications

• H04N23/635

  Region indicators; Field of view indicators · CPC title

• H04N23/69

  Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming · CPC title

• H04N23/631

  Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters · CPC title

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F2203/04806

  Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation · CPC title