International Business Machines Corporation

Garland Ray Bullock

Albert Durr Edgar

Steven C Penn

Allen W Heath

Ronald K Sheppard

A method and apparatus for controlling and displaying the image information presently seen by the image capture device together with those images which have been captured and stored upon actuation of the device. In a preferred embodiment, a viewfinder window is located in a capture device window. The capture device window also includes a variety of push buttons, some of which control the image capture device, others of which control the way in which the captured images are displayed on the computer screen. In response to the user command to capture an image, the image will be displayed adjacent to the image capture window. As the user continues to capture images, the frames are displayed as long as the computer has adequate temporary storage. Means to discard some images are also included in the user interface. Preferably, the discarded images are retained to allow the maximum reversibility of decisions to the discard images. The user interface also allows the user to stack a set of images into a single object in the workspace. Images may be manipulated within the stack, discarded or modified or changed between stacks of image objects.

Digital image capture control

In a data processing system including a keyboard a visual display device, and a pointing input device, such as a mouse, pointing input device events, as well as keyboard events, can be directly stored relative to a keystroke program by defining and storing relative to each menu, command bar, or subdivision thereof, a table of zones capable of being pointed to by the pointing input device. The pointing input device position is then compared to the coordinates of the zones and when a match of the zone coordinates and pointing input device position occurs the stored data table is further utilized to determine valid pointing input device events. The presence of the pointing input device pointer in appropriate zones, along with appropriate pointing input device actions, are the events stored relative to a keystroke program, rather than a conversion of the pointing input device actions into keystrokes by keyboard emulation.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Garland Ray Bullock