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US 2016/0110091 A1Published application
Fast and natural one-touch deletion in image editing on mobile devices
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsWei Ji, Mohammad Gharavi-Alkhansari
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Abstract
A fast and natural one-touch deletion apparatus and method for simple image editing on touch screen enabled computer devices is presented. The apparatus detects finger (user) contact on an image object and segments the object, preferably highlighting the selection. The user can then slide the image object to a deletion partition, whereupon releasing their finger contact confirms the deletion, and the apparatus triggers a deletion process to remove the object from the image.
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An apparatus for image editing, comprising:
- (a) a computer processor configured for image editing;
- (b) a display device and touch screen, both coupled to said computer processor;
- (c) wherein said touch screen is configured for registering touch contact on said display device for communication to said computer processor;
- (d) programming executable on the computer processor for performing steps comprising:
- (i) displaying an original image on said display screen;
- (ii) registering user contact on said touch screen in selecting an image object seen on said display screen;
- (iii) segmenting out an image object, displayed in said original image on said display screen, at the location of said user contact with said touch screen;
- (iv) moving said image object to follow the path of user sliding contact with said touch screen;
- (v) detecting that user contact movement has reached a deletion partition of said display screen as sensed by said touch screen;
- (vi) displaying a deletion indicia in response to said user contact reaching said deletion partition as it is moving said image object;
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- (vii) deleting said image object from the original image and generating a resultant image, in response to detecting that user contact with the touch screen has been removed over the deletion partition of the screen.
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An apparatus for image editing, comprising:
- (a) a computer processor configured for image editing;
- (b) a display device and touch screen, both coupled to said computer processor;
- (c) wherein said touch screen is configured for registering touch contact on said display device for communication to said computer processor;
- (d) programming executable on the computer processor for performing steps comprising:
- (i) displaying an original image on said display screen;
- (ii) registering user contact on said touch screen in selecting an image object seen on said display screen;
- (iii) segmenting out an image object, displayed in said original image on said display screen, at the location of said user contact with said touch screen;
- (iv) moving said image object to follow the path of user sliding contact with said touch screen;
- (v) detecting that user contact movement has reached a deletion partition of said display screen as sensed by said touch screen;
- (vi) wherein said deletion partition of the display screen comprises a portion of the display area defined in a predefined location or dynamically defined;
- (vii) displaying a deletion indicia in response to said user contact reaching said deletion partition as it is moving said image object;
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- (viii) deleting said image object from the original image and generating a resultant image, in response to detecting that user contact with the touch screen has been removed over the deletion partition of the screen.
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A method of image editing, comprising:
- (a) displaying an original image on a display screen coupled with a touch screen of an electronic device configured for registering touch contact by a computer processor executing image editing programming;
- (b) registering user contact on said touch screen in selecting an image object seen on said display screen;
- (c) segmenting out an image object, displayed in said original image on said display screen, at the location of said user contact with said touch screen;
- (d) moving said image object to follow the path of user sliding contact with said touch screen;
- (e) detecting that user contact movement has reached a deletion partition of said display screen as sensed by said touch screen;
- (f) displaying a deletion indicia in response to said user contact reaching said deletion partition as it is moving said image object;
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- (g) deleting said image object from the original image and generating a resultant image, in response to detecting that user contact with the touch screen has been removed over the deletion partition of the screen.
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