Apparatus and method for processing digital image
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorEunhyung Cho
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for processing a digital image, wherein analog images are converted to digital images and stored. The method for processing a digital image includes sensing a first hand-drawn sketch and storing the sensed first hand-drawn sketch as a first digital image; visualizing the stored loaded first digital image as a first virtual hand-drawn sketch; sensing a second hand-drawn sketch being additionally drawn on the visualized first virtual hand-drawn sketch; and storing the sensed second hand-drawn sketch as a second digital image, wherein the first hand-drawn sketch and the second hand-drawn sketch corresponds to a physical sketch being expressed with a liquid or solid substance hand-drawn by a user.
Claims22
An apparatus for processing a digital image, comprising:
- an image sensor unit configured to sense a hand-drawn sketch and to convert the sensed hand-drawn sketch to the digital image,
- wherein the hand-drawn sketch corresponds to a physical sketch being expressed with a liquid or solid substance hand-drawn by a user;
- an image storage unit configured to store the converted digital image;
- an image display unit configured to visualize the stored digital image to a virtual hand-drawn sketch;
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- a controller configured to perform steps of:
- sensing a first hand-drawn sketch on a first sketching plane and storing the sensed first hand-drawn sketch as a first digital image;
- detecting the first sketching plane is changed to a second sketching plane;
- visualizing the stored first digital image as a first virtual hand-drawn sketch on the second sketching plane when the first hand-drawn sketch is not detected;
- sensing a second hand drawn sketch being drawn on the second sketching plane, while the first virtual hand-drawn sketch is visualized on the second sketching plane;
- and
- storing the sensed second hand-drawn sketch as a second digital image;
- recognizing the first hand-drawn sketch or the second hand-drawn sketch, and
- visualizing a virtual guide image,
- wherein the virtual guide image includes an extension line image of the first hand-drawn sketch or second hand-drawn sketch or an additional image providing a 3-dimensional view of the first hand-drawn sketch or second hand-drawn sketch.
A method for processing a digital image, comprising:
- sensing a first hand-drawn sketch on a first sketching plane and storing the sensed first hand-drawn sketch as a first digital image;
- detecting the first sketching plane is changed to a second sketching plane;
- visualizing the stored first digital image as a first virtual hand-drawn sketch on the second sketching plane when the first hand-drawn sketch is not detected;
- sensing a second hand-drawn sketch being drawn on the second sketching plane, while the first virtual hand-drawn sketch is visualized on the second sketching plane;
- storing the sensed second hand-drawn sketch as a second digital image;
- recognizing the first hand-drawn sketch or the second hand-drawn sketch;
- and
- visualizing a virtual guide image,
- wherein each of the first hand-drawn sketch and the second hand-drawn sketch corresponds to a physical sketch being expressed with a liquid or solid substance hand-drawn by a user, and
- wherein the virtual guide image includes an extension line image of the first hand-drawn sketch or second hand-drawn sketch or an additional image providing a 3-dimensional view of the first hand-drawn sketch or second hand-drawn sketch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.