Information processing apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9501210-B2
Application number	US-201414313454-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 24, 2014
Priority date	Jun 27, 2013
Publication date	Nov 22, 2016
Grant date	Nov 22, 2016

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a display device configured to display a first image, a coordinate input device configured to input coordinates on the first image, and a processor configured to perform processing based on input to the coordinate input device. The processor specifies a part of a region on the first image as a specific region, based on coordinates of two points that are input to the coordinate input device, generates a second image that is obtained by enlarging the specific region at a predetermined magnification, and causes the display device to superimpose and display the second image on the first image with the second image occupying a part of the first image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a display device configured to display a first image;
a coordinate input device configured to input coordinates on the first image; and
a processor configured to perform processing based on input to the coordinate input device, wherein
the processor
calculates a designated region on the first image that is defined by coordinates of two points that are input to the coordinate input device,
specifies a specific region within a range of the designated region,
generates a second image that is obtained by enlarging the specific region at a predetermined magnification, and
causes the display device to superimpose and display the second image on the first image with the second image occupying a part of the first image,
wherein when a size of the designated region enlarged at the predetermined magnification is equal to or smaller than a size of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device, the processor specifies the designated region as the specific region, and generates the second image that is obtained by enlarging the specific region at a first magnification, and
when a size of the designated region enlarged at the predetermined magnification is larger than a size of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device, the processor specifies a region having such a size that the size enlarged at the predetermined magnification becomes equal to or smaller than a size of a part or a whole of the region of the display device, as the specific region, inside the designated region, and generates the second image that is obtained by enlarging the specific region at a second magnification, the first magnification and the second magnification being the same as the predetermined magnification.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the coordinate input device is a touch panel that is arranged in the display device, and
the processor detects
first coordinates of a first point, which are input by a touch to the touch panel, and
second coordinates of a second point, which are input by a touch to the touch panel during a period when the input of the first coordinates continues, and
determines the coordinates of the two points based on the first and second coordinates.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein
when new coordinates of a new point are input to the coordinate input device after one of an input of the first coordinates and an input of the second coordinates is released,
the processor replaces the released coordinates with the new coordinates.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor
compares a width or a height of the second image with a width or a height of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device, and
when a width or a height of the second image is larger than a width or a height of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device,
the processor causes the display device to superimpose and display an image obtained by reducing the second image on the first image with the displayed image occupying a part of the first image.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor arranges the second image at a predetermined position on the first image, and
the processor shifts a position of the arranged second image in a specific direction when any part of the arranged second image extends outside a region of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device, the specific direction being opposite to the extending direction of the second image outside the region of a part or a whole of the display region of the display device, and
the processor
causes the display device to display on the first image the second image at the predetermined position or the shifted position.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein
the predetermined position is a position so that a center of the second image and a center of the specific region coincide with each other.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the processor
detects first coordinates of a first point, which are input to the coordinate input device,
receives an input of second coordinates of a second point, by a drag operation that is performed after the first coordinates are input, and
determines coordinates of the two points based on the first and second coordinates.

8. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the designated region is defined as a rectangular region that has, as a diagonal line, a straight line connecting the coordinates of the two points with each other.

Assignees

• Panasonic Corp
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ishii Takumi
• Nakamura Yusaku

Classifications

• G06F3/04842 Primary

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F2203/04806

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

• G06F3/0481

  based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

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