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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2007
Satoru Itani, Osaka, JP;
Yuji Mizuguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Yamashita, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image operating device which is inexpensive and capable of allowing a user to understand to what extent an image operation of movement, enlargement and reduction, rotation or the like is performed on an image. The image operating device that performs an operation on a display image comprises: an image display section () for displaying an image on a screen; an image operating section () for performing a predetermined image operation on the image displayed on the image display section (); a position designating section () for designating a first point which is any point on the screen by means of a single-point input device and for further designating a position, on the screen, to where the first point is to be moved as a result of the image operation performed by the image operating section (); and a pointer display section for displaying a first pointer image at the position designated by the position designating section (), and for further displaying a second pointer image at a position symmetrical to the first pointer image with respect to a center point of rotation and/or enlargement and reduction when the image operation of rotation and/or enlargement and reduction is performed by the image operating section.