Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and computer-readable storage medium for trimming and enlarging a portion of a subject image based on touch panel inputs
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsYoshinori Matsuzawa, Atsushi Maruyama, Osamu Nonaka
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, an input unit that receives input for specifying an area of a portion of the image displayed by the display unit, and a display controller that controls a display mode for confirming a specified image corresponding to the area of which input is received by the input unit.
Claims17
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit;
- a touch panel display unit that (1) displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, (2) receives a user touch input for specifying a touch position on the touch panel display unit and (3) receives a user slide input for changing a magnification rate;
- an eyepiece display unit;
- a parameter change unit for changing the magnification rate based on the user slide input, thereby generating an updated magnification rate;
- a trimming unit that generates a trimming image by (1) cropping an area determined from the position specified by the received user touch input of the image data, and (2) modifying the cropped area using the updated magnification rate;
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- a display controller that controls a display mode of at least one of the eyepiece display unit and the touch panel display unit to display an enlarged image generated from the trimming image.
An imaging method executed by an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, and a touch panel display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, the imaging method comprising:
- receiving, from the touch panel display unit, a user touch input for specifying a position on the display unit;
- receiving, from the touch panel display unit, a user slide input for changing a magnification rate;
- changing the magnification rate based on the received user slide input, thereby generating an updated magnification rate;
- generating a trimming image by (1) cropping an area determined from the position specified by the received user touch input of the image data, and (2) modifying the cropped area using the updated magnification rate;
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- controlling a display mode of at least one of an eyepiece display unit and the touch panel display unit to display an enlarged image generated from the trimming image.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein a processor is provided in an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit that generates image data of a subject image obtained via a lens unit, and a touch panel display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data generated by the imaging unit, and
- wherein the program instructs a processor to perform:
- receiving, from the touch panel display unit, a user touch input for specifying a position on the display unit;
- receiving, from the touch panel display unit, a user slide input for changing a magnification rate;
- changing the magnification rate based on the received user slide input, thereby generating an updated magnification rate;
- generating a trimming image by (1) cropping an area determined from the position specified by the received user touch input of the image data, and (2) modifying the cropped area using the updated magnification rate;
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- controlling a display mode of at least one of an eyepiece display unit and the touch panel display unit to display an enlarged image generated from the trimming image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.