Information processing method and apparatus for displaying and zooming an object image and a line drawing

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG.
1 and FIG.
2 show a possible configuration for an electronic camera in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
For convenience in the following explanation, the surface facing the object when an object is photographed is called surface X1 and the surface facing the user is called surface X2.
In FIG.
1, near the top of surface X1 are a viewfinder 2 used to verify the shooting range of the object, a shooting lens 3 that acquires the image of the object, a red-eye reduction lamp 44 used to reduce the red-eye phenomenon, and a light-emitting unit or strobe 4 that emits light to illuminate the object (the light-emitting unit is referred to as the "strobe" in this description, since this embodiment uses a strobe, but the invention can be practiced with other types of lightemitting units as well).
In FIG.
2, near the top of surface X2 can be seen the viewfinder 2 and a speaker 5.
The speaker 5 outputs sound corresponding to sound data recorded on a memory card or the like installed in the electronic camera 1.
An LCD 6 and an operation keypad 7 are arranged vertically on surface X2 below the viewfinder 2, the shooting lens 3, the strobe 4, and the speaker 5.
On the surface of the LCD 6 is formed a so-called touch tablet 6A that outputs position data corresponding to the position designated by touching a pen-type pointing device (the pen) 46 to touch tablet 6A, as best seen in FIG.
7.
The touch tablet 6A is made using transparent material such as glass or resin so that the user can view an object image displayed on the LCD 6 through the touch tablet 6A.
The operation keypad 7 has a number of keys that correspond to various functions and are operated by using the pen 46.
The keypad 7 is used to reproduce recorded data such as object image data, sound data, or text data recorded on the internal memory card (or memory), and to display the data on the LCD 6.
For example, a menu key 7A is used to display a menu screen on the LCD 6.
An execution key 7B is used to reproduce recorded data selected by the user