Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Tamaki Nakamura

Satoshi Mizuno

Kohji Sawayama

Yonosuke Amano

Toshio Nomura

Tadashi Uchiumi

Norio Ito

Hiroyasu Hamamura

Yoshio Umeda

Kohji 903 Daiyamondo Foramu Enjoji Sawayama

An electronic apparatus that facilitates determining whether image data is representing a 2D image or a 3D image and determining a type of image data, is provided. When image data is obtained, the electronic apparatus memorizes, in addition to the image data and a filename thereof, a dimension of an image represented by the image data and a type of the image data as an attribute thereof. The electronic apparatus also creates from the image data and memorizes image data representing a thumbnail image, and displays the thumbnail images arranged in a list view so that a content of the image represented by the image data is easily recognized. It is also possible to provide the thumbnail image data representing a 3D image.

Electronic apparatus

A cellular phone includes a first case and a second case, which are connected in a foldable manner through a hinge. When the cellular phone is in a folded state, a second display unit displays an image with the side (upper side) closer to the hinge as the upper side. Accordingly, the user can hold the second case of the cellular phone in his/her hand regardless of whether the cellular phone is in a folded state or in an open state. The user can easily switch between a folded state and an open state with respect to the first case and the second case.

Foldable cellular telephone

In a foldable cellular phone, an image taken and provided by a camera portion is displayed on a first or second display portion for previewing before storage in a third memory. The second display portion displays the image in the opposite directions corresponding to a folded state and an open state, respectively. In either the folded state or the open state, a second display driver portion rotates the image by 180 degrees to display the image on the second display portion for previewing. Although the direction of the image displayed on the second display portion is inverted depending on the state selected between the folded state and the open state, the second display portion displays the image in a constant direction with respect to a user in both the folded state and the open state of the cellular phone during the previewing operation.

Portable device displaying an image provided by photographing

Foldable cellular telephone having image pick up unit and external display operable in folded state

A retention memory retains 2D image data picked-up and output by camera portion in association with corresponding thumbnail image data. The 2D image data retained in the retention memory is converted to 3D image data formed of image data for left-eye and for right-eye for stereoscopic vision of the image as desired. A retention portion creates thumbnail image data with a shrunken image based on this 3D image data and stores the created thumbnail image data and the 3D image data in the retention memory in association with each other. The thumbnail image data is created, for example, by reducing the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data of the 3D image data to satisfy a thumbnail size. A listing of thumbnails based on the thumbnail image data in retention memory is displayed on a display portion so that the retained image can be recognized at a glance.

Image display device and method for displaying thumbnail based on three-dimensional image data

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Tamaki Nakamura