Patent ID: 8228414

Claim:
A real-size preview system in a terminal having a digital camera function employing a camera module, comprising: a display unit; and an image processor for: designating a first display area in the display unit to display an image, said image being one of: a previously photographed image and a to-be photographed image, designating a second display area in the display unit and increasing an image size of a selected region of the image previewed through the first display area to be displayed in the second display area, wherein only the image in the selected region of the first display area is viewed in the second display area and the size of the image displayed in the second display area is determined by a magnification ratio, said magnification ratio being determined as a ratio of a width of the display unit to a width of the image in the first display area, wherein the width of the image in the first display area is determined based on an image resolution of the image displayed in the first display area and and the second display area is non-overlapping with the first display area.