Abstract: A portable terminal having a touch screen and a method for processing an image therein are provided. The portable terminal includes a camera unit for photographing an image, a touch screen for displaying the photographed image, a controller for generating, if a substantially continuous drawing motion is detected on the touch screen, a partial area in the displayed image according to the drawing motion, and a memory unit for storing the partial area of the displayed image. Accordingly, the portable terminal may more easily perform image photographing and editing, thereby increasing user convenience.

Abstract: A disclosed image forming apparatus accepts a selecting operation of selecting a button displayed on a touch panel and performs a process corresponding to the selected button. The image forming apparatus includes a moving region display unit displaying a region mark to be selected on the touch panel and moving the region mark as time passes and a button specifying unit specifying one or more buttons based on positional information indicating a position of the region mark and positional information indicating a pressed position of the touch panel.

Abstract: A display unit includes a touch point locus detector that detects a locus of a touch point on the touch panel, and a suspended touch detector that detects that the touch is suspended when the touch point remains at rest at one spot for at least a predetermined time period while the locus is detected. The display unit also includes a graphics identifying section that identifies a graphics indicated by the locus when the suspended touch is detected, and a graphics display section that displays the locus on a display screen, erases the displayed locus after the graphics identification is finished, and displays a graphics obtained through the identification on the display screen.

Abstract: A method and system for verifying and altering an area of an image to be photocopied prior to producing a copy. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an image capturing device is used to capture an image of items to be copied. A representation of this captured image is then displayed on a screen to be previewed by a user prior to producing a copy. A control unit of the present embodiment allows the user to alter the representation displayed on the display screen and to control the form and content of the copy produced. Alterations to the representation include, but are not limited to, elimination of certain portions (cropping), selection of certain portions for copying, rearranging by cutting and pasting, identifying areas to be copied in color, identifying areas to be copied as shaded and identifying areas to be copied in a different size. Further, the control unit will allow the user to edit the representation on the display screen.

Abstract: A coordinates input device connected to an image processing system such as a copying machine for reading an image recorded on a recording medium and for editing this image. This device includes: a transparent vibration propagating plate to designate an editing area for trimming or masking in contact relation with the recording medium from which the image was read by the image processing system; a vibration pen to input a supersonic vibration by coming into contact with the vibration propagating plate; vibration sensors which are attached to the plate and detect the vibration generated from the vibration pen; and a controller for supplying to the image processing system the editing area information for the recording medium designated by the coordinates of the vibration pen on the plate which were detected by the vibration sensors.

Abstract: A document processing system which, in response to a simple instruction given by a user, is able to change and modify automatically the design of an input document. The document processing system includes target area instructor for instructing an area serving as an edit target to a document image stored in document image holding unit, target area extraction unit for extracting the instructed edit target area out of the document image, design instruction unit for instructing a desired document design to an output document, design parameter decision unit, responsive to the instruction from the design instruction unit, for deciding a parameter value relating to the document design of the target area, and output image generation unit for processing the document image of the edit target area on the basis of the decided parameter value to thereby generate an output image.