Apparatus to provide a screen capturing function and a method of providing the screen capturing function

Abstract

A portable apparatus to provide a screen capturing function, when a display unit of the apparatus displays moving pictures on a display panel thereof, includes a button signal input unit to receive a button signal inputted by a user; a picture capturing unit to capture individual pictures of the moving pictures, when the inputted button signal is determined to be a first button signal; a thumbnail creating unit to create thumbnails of the captured pictures, the thumbnails being sequentially arranged on a predetermined portion of the display panel; and a screen recording button located on an exterior of the portable apparatus to generate the first button signal.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] This application claims the benefit of Korean Application No. 2005-100432, filed Oct. 24, 2005, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] 1. Field of the Invention [0003] Aspects of the present invention relate to an apparatus to provide a screen capturing function and a method of providing the screen capturing function, and, more particularly, to an apparatus to provide a screen capturing function and a method of providing the screen capturing function, in which a moving picture reproduced on a display panel is captured and recorded using a screen recording button provided in a portable apparatus, and in which the captured image is displayed as a thumbnail. [0004] 2. Description of the Related Art [0005] Recently, digital broadcasting services have quickly spread through existing media, such as ground wave broadcasting, satellite broadcastin...

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Problems solved by technology

However, where a user wants to capture and record various kinds of pictures provided through a display panel of a portable apparatus (for example, a cellular phone or PDA) that has adopted the DMB service to provide a variety of multimedia information, since a separate hardware device needs to be provided, a system becomes complicated, and costs thereof increase.

However, there is no technology in which predetermined pictures are captured and recorded according to a selection duration time during which a button is selected by a user and thumbnails of the predetermined pictures are displayed on the screen.

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