Patent ID: 8102461

Claim:
A method for displaying an image using focus information of a portable terminal, comprising: (a) extracting at least one interested area from a captured subject image; and (b) generating image information of the captured subject; (c) displaying the selected interested area of the captured subject image according to focus information of the generated image information; wherein when the extracted at least one interested area is selected, the generated image information generated by the generating step (b) includes focus information, so that the selected interested area is magnified automatically in order to reduce an amount of panning or zooming for display thereof at the magnified size, wherein displaying the interested area image comprises: automatically determining on a basis of features of the interested area image as to whether the interested area image is to be displayed in a portrait or landscape format; and magnifying the interested area image for display in the portrait or landscape format according to features of the interested area image; wherein an image controlling unit of the portable terminal automatically corrects a position of the magnified interested area image displayed on the portable terminal by using focus information to display only the magnified interested area image of the captured image on the display without cutting off any portion of the magnified interested area or having a border around at least a portion of the magnified interested area image.