KR100993199B1 - Image management and registration method of mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to image management and registration of a mobile terminal.

According to the present invention, after cutting out a part of an image, a part of the temporarily stored image can be directly pasted and registered without the user having to find and load the image separately, thereby reducing the trouble and time according to the image registration, and prompting the user. Disclosed is a technique for quickly reflecting an image editing and utilization idea.

Mobile terminal, mobile phone, mobile phone, camera, image, editing, image registration

Description

How to manage and register images on your mobile device {IMAGE MANAGEMENT AND REGISTRATION METHOD OF MOBILE TERMINAL}

The present invention relates to an image management and registration method and apparatus therefor in a mobile terminal, and more particularly, to a technique for registering and storing an edited image in an application capable of registering an image.

The development of communication technology and digital technology combined with portability gave birth to various mobile terminals.

Among such mobile terminals, in particular, mobile telephones capable of wireless communication have become essential portable items for modern people.

Such mobile communication telephones are explosive enough to be distributed to not only adults but also elementary school students in recent years, so that the functions of other mobile terminals are rapidly absorbed and researched and developed in various ways.

Currently, mobile phones have absorbed digital camera functions, gaming functions, wireless Internet functions, video playback functions, and digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) functions, and have even made video calls.

Digital camera functions, game functions, wireless internet functions, video playback functions, and DMB functions as described above are handled with images and videos, so mobile phones are images or videos generated from images and videos handled by those various functions. The image received from the user can be obtained.

Therefore, the general mobile phone has a function to edit and save the acquired image.

In addition, the stored image is registered by connecting to the phone number when the phone number is stored (for example, registering a picture of the wife in the wife's phone number) or by connecting to a schedule (schedule) (for example, Jeju Island). It is used in various parts such as registering photos and pictures in a meeting schedule.

On the other hand, when the image is connected to other applications to register it may be inappropriate for the user to register the entire image. For example, there may be a case where you want to store a group picture of three people by connecting it to a phone number of a specific person, or you may want to store a picture of a landscape that does not like part of the image by connecting it to a schedule. . In this case, the user cuts and stores only a portion of the image that he / she wants to connect to and stores in another application, and then registers a portion of the stored image by connecting to another application.

However, the above image management and registration method is accompanied by the following hassle.

First, when you run another application, the image stored through the image import is registered as it is, so if there is a part you do not like, save only the part you want and then load it in the execution of other applications. There is a hassle to 'find' and register the cut image by the 'user'.

Secondly, if the user is enjoying the images (for example, photos taken on a trip) and feels that a part of the image is appropriate to register by connecting to a specific person's phone number or schedule, the same troublesome as the first case There is a feeling.

And the above hassle requires the time spent to register the cut image to other applications.

An object of the present invention is to provide a technology that can be registered by connecting to other applications without the need to 'find and retrieve' the image that was devised to solve the above problems.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing and registering an image in a mobile terminal, the method including: displaying and displaying a generated image or a stored image; B) editing the image displayed in the step A); C) temporarily storing the image edited in the step B); D) executing another application capable of registering an image by a user's command; And E) storing, after pasting the edited image temporarily stored in step C) to an image registration position when the other application executed in step D) is executed. Characterized in that it comprises a.

The editing of the image made in the step B) is to cut out a part of the image selected by the user from the displayed image.

Step E) is another feature that is performed by a user's command.

Step E) is another feature that is automatically performed along with the execution of the other application.

The other application may be a phone number storage application or a schedule storage application.

The image registration position is another feature of being set.

In addition, the mobile terminal according to the present invention for achieving the above object, the image storage unit (Image) is stored; A display unit capable of displaying an image stored in the image storage unit; An image editing unit capable of editing the image displayed by the display unit; A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the image edited by the image editing unit; At least one application unit capable of registering and storing the edited image stored in the temporary storage unit; A control unit for controlling the respective units, and controlling to store the edited image after pasting the edited image to an image registration position when the edited image is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit; And an input unit for inputting a user's command to the controller. Characterized in that it comprises a.

According to the present invention as described above, since the process of finding and importing the cut image can be omitted, it is possible to reduce the time required for the hassle and registration, and it is possible to easily and quickly reflect the concept of improvisation utilization.

The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the technical parts already known will be omitted or compressed for simplicity of explanation.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication telephone 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the mobile communication telephone 100 according to the present embodiment includes a wireless communication unit 101, a camera unit 102, a DMB unit 103, an image capture unit 104, and an image storage unit ( 105, a display unit 106, an image editing unit 107, a temporary storage unit 108, a phone number editing unit 109, a schedule management unit 110, a control unit 111 and an input unit 112 and the like. .

The wireless communication unit 101 enables wireless communication through a mobile communication network.

The camera unit 102 is provided for taking a picture.

The DMB unit 103 is provided for broadcast reception.

The image capture unit 104 makes it possible to generate an image file by capturing a scene during DMB broadcasting or other video display.

The image storage unit 105 stores an image generated and acquired by the camera unit 102 and the image capturing unit 104 or obtained through some other path (such as when receiving an image from another person).

The display unit 106 is used for a typical use such as displaying an image for image editing.

The image editing unit 107 makes it possible to cut out only the portion desired by the user from the image displayed through the display unit 106. Of course, the image editing unit 107 also allows for image correction such as image synthesis.

The temporary storage unit 108 temporarily stores an image (hereinafter, referred to as a part of the image) cut by the image editing unit 107. The temporary storage unit 108 may belong to a part of the image storage unit 105 according to implementation.

The phone number editing unit 109 may register and register a phone number of a specific person that the user wants to remember with the name (or example name) of the specific person, and register and connect an image that reminds the user of the specific person. To perform.

The schedule management unit 110 may register a schedule to be memorized by the user and perform an application that allows the user to register an image that reminds the schedule.

The control unit 111 controls the above-described units (wireless communication unit, camera unit, DMB unit, image capture unit, image storage unit, display unit, image editing unit, temporary storage unit, phone number editing unit, schedule management unit), in particular, When the phone number editing unit 109 or the schedule management unit 110 operates while a part of the image is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 108 and the application is executed according to the user's command or execution, the temporary storage is automatically performed. After pasting a part of the image temporarily stored in the unit 108 to the image registration position, the control for storing is performed.

The input unit 112 is provided to input various commands of the user to the control unit 111.

Subsequently, the image management and registration method in the mobile communication telephone 100 having the above-described configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

1. Image Display <S201>

For example, an image generated by capturing, capturing, or the like, or an image stored in the image storage unit 105 is called and displayed by a user's command.

2. Clipping out part of the image <S202>

The image editing unit 107 operates to prolong a part of the image displayed in step S201 by a user's command. 3 (a) shows an example of a state in which a part of the image is cut out from the image displayed in step S201.

3. Temporarily save part of the image <S203>

A part of the image cut out in step S202 is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 108.

4. Run other applications <S204>

Subsequently, another application (telephone number storage or schedule storage) for registering an image is executed by the user's command. 3 (b) shows a state in which an application for storing a phone number is executed as an example of executing another application.

5. Image registration <S205>

If the user inputs a paste command during operation of another application executed in step S204, a part of the image temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit 108 is pasted into the image registration position A in step S203 and then stored. Fig. 3B shows a state in which a part of the image cut out in Fig. 3A is pasted at the image registration position. Of course, referring to Figure 3 (b) and (c), in this embodiment, there is a 'paste' menu (M) so that a portion of the image temporarily stored by the user's separate command input is the image registration position (A) Although it is considered to be pasted into the (), depending on the implementation may be designed to be implemented to be automatically performed after another application is executed without the user's separate command. At this time, it is preferable that the image registration position A is set to a fixed position when the image is automatically pasted to the image registration position A.

On the other hand, the embodiment described above has been described taking the mobile communication phone 100 as an example, it will be appreciated that any number of mobile terminals having an application that can register images can be applied.

In addition, although clipping only an image is taken as an example, the present invention is not limited to cutting out an image, but may be adaptively used in image editing such as other image modification such as image synthesis.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. And the scope of the present invention should be understood as the following claims and their equivalents.

1 is a block diagram of a mobile communication telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an image management and registration method performed in the mobile communication telephone of FIG.

3 is a reference diagram for reference to the description of the image management and registration method according to FIG. 2.

* Description of the code for the main parts of the drawings *

100: mobile communication phone

105: image storage unit

106: display unit

107: image editing unit

108: temporary storage

111: control unit

112: input unit

Claims (7)

A) displaying and calling the generated image or the stored image; B) editing the image displayed in the step A); C) temporarily storing the image edited in the step B); D) executing another application that can register an image by a user's command following step C); And E) step of pasting the edited image temporarily stored in the step C) to the image registration position when the other application is executed in step D); Characterized in that it comprises Image management and registration method in mobile terminal The method of claim 1, The editing of the image made in the step B) is to cut out a part of the image selected by the user from the displayed image. Image management and registration method in mobile terminal The method of claim 1, Step E) is performed by a user's command Image management and registration method in mobile terminal. The method of claim 1, Step E) is performed automatically with the execution of the other application Image management and registration method in mobile terminal. The method of claim 1, The other application may be a phone number storage application or a schedule storage application. Image management and registration method in mobile terminal. The method of claim 1, The image registration position is set. Image management and registration method in mobile terminal. An image storage unit in which an image is stored; A display unit capable of displaying an image stored in the image storage unit; An image editing unit capable of editing an image displayed by the display unit;  A temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the image edited by the image editing unit; At least one application unit capable of registering and storing the edited image stored in the temporary storage unit; A control unit for controlling the respective units, and controlling to store the edited image after pasting the edited image to an image registration position when the edited image is temporarily stored in the temporary storage unit; And An input unit for inputting a user's command to the control unit; Characterized in that it comprises Mobile terminal.

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