OpenCV & Python - Image too big to display

Question

I have an image that is 6400 × 3200, while my screen is 1280 x 800. Therefore, the image needs to be resized for display only. I am using Python and OpenCV 2.4.9. According to OpenCV Documentation,

If you need to show an image that is bigger than the screen resolution, you will need to call namedWindow("", WINDOW_NORMAL) before the imshow.

That is what I am doing, but the image is not fitted to the screen, only a portion is shown because it's too big. I've also tried with cv2.resizeWindow, but it doesn't make any difference.

import cv2 cv2.namedWindow("output", cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)        # Create window with freedom of dimensions # cv2.resizeWindow("output", 400, 300)              # Resize window to specified dimensions im = cv2.imread("earth.jpg")                        # Read image cv2.imshow("output", im)                            # Show image cv2.waitKey(0)                                      # Display the image infinitely until any keypress 

Answer 1

Although I was expecting an automatic solution (fitting to the screen automatically), resizing solves the problem as well.

import cv2 cv2.namedWindow("output", cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)    # Create window with freedom of dimensions im = cv2.imread("earth.jpg")                    # Read image imS = cv2.resize(im, (960, 540))                # Resize image cv2.imshow("output", imS)                       # Show image cv2.waitKey(0)                                  # Display the image infinitely until any keypress