Image correlation method and electronic device thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9396572-B2
Application number	US-201414299347-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 9, 2014
Priority date	Jun 9, 2013
Publication date	Jul 19, 2016
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016

Abstract

Provided is an image correlation method, including establishing and saving correlation relationship for a plurality of image class files to form a correlation image group, displaying image class files of the formed correlation image group on a same page in a combined manner according to the correlation relationship, receiving, in the combined display state, a user's operation instruction for any one image class file of the correlation image group, and separately performing a corresponding operation on the any one image class file according to the operation instruction.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
generating a correlation image group by establishing and saving a correlation relationship for a plurality of image class files;
displaying combined image class files of the generated correlation image group on a same page according to the correlation relationship;
receiving, in the combined display state, a user's operation instruction for any one image class file of the correlation image group; and
separately performing a corresponding operation on the any one image class file according to the operation instruction,
wherein the image class file includes at least one of an image and a correlation image group,
wherein the correlation relationship is used to record file information and display position information of each image class file of the correlation image group,
wherein the user's operation instruction for the any one image class file includes at least one of scaling and double click, and
wherein, when the user's operation instruction for the any one image class file is the scaling operation, a display size of all images of the any one image class file is adjusted according to the operation instruction, and the current display size of a corresponding image class file that has been adjusted in the correlation relationship is stored, after confirmation by the user, or
wherein, when the user's operation instruction for the any one image class file is the double click operation, the any one image class file is displayed in a maximized state, or the any one image class file that is restored to the display size stored in the correlation relationship is displayed.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
binding together all image class files of the correlation image group and corresponding correlation relationship;
sharing all the image class files of the correlation image group and the corresponding correlation relationship which are bound together on the network with other terminal devices;
obtaining, by a terminal device of a sharing peer, all the image class files of the correlation image group and the corresponding correlation relationship which are bound together for sharing;
displaying, according to the correlation relationship, combined image class files of the correlation image group bound with the correlation relationship on the same page;
receiving, in the terminal device of the sharing peer, in the combined display state, the user's operation instruction for any one image class file of the correlation image group; and
separately performing the corresponding operation on the any one image class file according to the operation instruction.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, prior to establishing the correlation relationship for the plurality of image class files:
setting in advance a correlation-shooting mode in a terminal device;
determining whether to correlate a plurality of images taken by the terminal device, to correlate one image taken by the terminal device with other specified image class file; or according to the user's operation instruction, to correlate a plurality of image class files selected by the user in the terminal device; and
recommending, by a correlation system, images to be correlated with an image specified by the user according to detection of image properties, selection, by the user, of images from the recommended images, and a result of each of the determinations.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the recommending, by a correlation system, images to be correlated with an image specified by the user according to detection of image properties comprises:
selecting and recommending, through image recognition technology, images having a same feature as the image specified by the user from the gallery; selecting and recommending, by comparing Global Positioning System (GPS) information of image files, images having GPS information that is consistent with GPS information of the image specified by the user from the gallery; and
selecting and recommending, through comparing shooting time information of photo files, images from the gallery,
wherein an interval between a shooting time of each recommended image and the image specified by the user is less than a set time threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a deletion instruction from the user for any one image class file of the correlation image group;
deleting file information and display position information of the any one image class file from the correlation relationship; and
deleting the correlation relationship, after confirmation by the user, when the correlation relationship saves the file information and the display position information of only one image class file.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a changing instruction from the user for any one image class file of the correlation image group;
deleting file information and display position information of the any one image class file from the correlation relationship; and
adding file information and display position information of a changed image class file specified by the user into the correlation relationship.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the display position information of each image class file stored in the correlation relationship is a customized correlation display layout that is a default display of a system or one of a plurality of preset display templates selected by the user, and includes display position, and indication of whether to hide and support operation types of each image class file, and
wherein the displaying the combined image class files of the correlation image group includes displaying the combined image class files of the correlation image group according to the display layout.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the correlation relationship stores a valid range of each image class file, and
wherein receiving the user's operation instruction for any one image class file of the correlation image group includes using an operation instruction detected in a valid range corresponding to the any one image class file as the operation instruction of the any one image class file.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the any one image class file is a correlation image group, the separately performing the corresponding operation on the any one image class file according to the operation instruction includes performing, in the combined displaying state of the any one image class file, the corresponding operation on all images that are of the corresponding correlation image group.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the user's operation instruction for the any one image class file further includes position sliding, the any one image class file is displayed on an indicated position according to the operation instruction; after confirmation of the user and ending of the position sliding instruction, and the current position information of the any one image class file is stored in the correlation relationship.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the correlation relationship stores a hide identifier corresponding to each image class file, and
wherein it is determined whether to display a corresponding image class file in the combined display state, according to the hide identifier corresponding to each image class file.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein when the user's operation instruction for the any one image class file further includes hiding,
the any one image class file is hidden according to the operation instruction,
the hide identifier corresponding to the corresponding image class file is recorded as hidden, after con

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Feng Chenhua
• Yang Fan
• Zhao Zipeng

Classifications

• G06V20/70

  Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations · CPC title

• G06F18/251

  of input or preprocessed data · CPC title

• G06T11/60 Primary

  Creating or editing images; Combining images with text · CPC title

• G06T2207/20221

  Image fusion; Image merging · CPC title

• G06K9/00677

  Physics · mapped topic