PHOTOGRAPH PREDICTION INCLUDING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPH RECORDING WITH AUTOFOCUS AND METHOD
First Claim
1. Electronic equipment for capturing images, comprisingan image capturing device,a motion sensor configured to sense motion of the image capturing device,an analyzer configured to determine whether the sensed motion of the image capturing device is a predefined motion, anda control configured so as upon determining the motion is the predefined motion to cause automatically capturing images or preparing to capture images in response to the analyzer determining the sensed motion being a predefined motion.
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Abstract
When a user removes a camera phone from a pocket or other storage location and raises it in a pre-defined motion in front of his face, the pre-defined motion activates the camera. When the camera phone decelerates/stabilizes in the user'"'"'s hand in the correct orientation to take a picture, autofocus occurs and the camera automatically records images/photographs. When the user presses the shutter release, a camera application opens on the camera phone display to show the current image and that image is recorded. The previous automatically recorded images also may be available for viewing by the user. If after removing the camera from the storage location, the user does something other than pressing the shutter release, the automatically recorded images will be automatically discarded. When a brief photographic opportunity occurs and the user has little time to react, the photographic moment still can be captured.
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22 Claims
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1. Electronic equipment for capturing images, comprising
an image capturing device, a motion sensor configured to sense motion of the image capturing device, an analyzer configured to determine whether the sensed motion of the image capturing device is a predefined motion, and a control configured so as upon determining the motion is the predefined motion to cause automatically capturing images or preparing to capture images in response to the analyzer determining the sensed motion being a predefined motion.
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14. A method for capturing images, comprising sensing motion of an image capturing device,
determining whether the sensed motion of the image capturing is a predefined motion, and upon determining the motion is the predefined motion automatically capturing images and/or preparing to capture images.
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