Patent ID: 6850689
Filing Date: 2005-02-01
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image apparatus equipped to read out image data as original data from a recording medium and display a zoomed-in magnified picture on a screen of a picture displaying unit on the basis of said image data as the original data, said image apparatus comprising: a plurality of zoom-in area designating keys disposed at least on either one of a main body of said image apparatus or a remote control unit therefor; a storage storing correspondence relations, respectively, between said plurality of zoom-in area designating keys and zoom-in areas resulting from partition of a pre-zoom picture being displayed on said screen from said image data as the original data, into a plurality of picture areas on said screen; and an image data processor designed such that when a second given one of said zoom-in area designating keys is operated in a state where a first zoom-in picture of a zoom-in area corresponding to a first given one of said zoom-in area designating keys is being displayed, with said second given one zoom-in area designating key differing from said first given zoom-in area designating key, an intervening zoomed-in picture is transitionally displayed which differs from said first zoomed-in picture and a second zoomed-in picture of a zoom-in area corresponding to said second given zoom-in area designating key, in precedence to displaying on said screen said second zoomed-in picture of the zoom-in area corresponding to said second zoom-in area designating key operated.