Information processing method and apparatus for displaying and zooming an object image and a line drawing
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorSatoshi Ejima
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus can display an object image and a line drawing overlapping each other. An area of the object image can be zoomed (enlarged or reduced) while the line drawing is left the same size, or optionally the line drawing can be zoomed in proportion to the object image zooming, so that the information displayed by the relative positional relationship between the object image and the line drawing is maintained.
Claims14
An information processing apparatus for displaying an object image and a line drawing, comprising:
- first and second zooming means for zooming the object image and the line drawing, respectively;
- selection means for selecting a zooming mode from a set of modes including a first mode and a second mode;
- and
- control means for:
- when the selection means has selected the first mode as the zooming mode, causing the second zooming means to zoom the line drawing when the object image is zoomed by the first zooming means;
- and
- when the selection means has selected the second mode as the zooming mode, keeping the second zooming means from zooming the line drawing when the object image is zoomed by the first zooming means.
An information processing and display method, comprising:
- inputting a first object image and a first line drawing;
- selecting a picture portion of the first object image to be zoomed;
- zooming the picture portion to obtain a zoomed object image;
- selecting a zooming mode from a set of modes including a first mode and a second mode;
- displaying a composite image;
- when the second mode is selected as the zooming mode, forming the composite image from the zoomed object image and the first line drawing;
- and
- when the first mode is selected as the zooming mode:
- selecting, based on the selected picture portion, a drawing portion of the first line drawing;
- zooming the drawing portion to obtain a zoomed line drawing;
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- forming the composite image from the zoomed object image and the zoomed line drawing.
An information processing apparatus for displaying an object image and a line drawing, comprising:
- a photoelectric conversion device that converts a light image of an object into object image signals;
- a line drawing input device through which a user inputs line drawing data;
- a memory, coupled to the photoelectric conversion device and to the line drawing input device, to store the object image signals and the line drawing data;
- a display on which at least the image of the object and the line drawing are displayed;
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- a controller, coupled to the memory and to the display, to control the display of the image of the object and the line drawing on the display, the controller being capable of independently zooming the image of the object and the line drawing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.