Automatic Photographic Device and Method thereof

• US 20140009630A1
• Filed: 11/27/2012
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Wistron Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Wei-Chen
• Application Number:
  US13/686,860
• Publication Number:
  US 20140009630A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/207.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/69 Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming

Abstract

An automatic photographic device for a mobile device includes a sense module for generating a sense result according to a position change of the mobile device, a determination module for generating a control signal according to the sense result, and a photographic module for processing a photographic operation according to the control signal, wherein the automatic photographic device is located within a three-dimensional space including the X-axis, the Y-axis and the Z-axis perpendicular to each other and the position change comprises a rotational angle change, a rotational velocity change and a straight acceleration change.

Claims

1. An automatic photographic device for a mobile device, comprising:

a sense module for generating a sense result according to a position change of the mobile device;

a determination module for generating a control signal according to the sense result; and

a photographic module for processing a photographic operation according to the control signal;

wherein the automatic photographic device is located within a three-dimensional space including the X-axis, the Y-axis and the Z-axis perpendicular to each other and the position change comprises a rotational angle change, a rotational velocity change and a straight acceleration change.

2. The automatic photographic device of claim 1, wherein the sense module further comprises a first sense unit, a second sense unit and a third sense unit for generating the sense result according to the rotational angle change, the rotational velocity change and the straight acceleration change, respectively.

3. The automatic photographic device of claim 2, wherein the first sense unit is an orientation sensor, and the rotational angle change comprises an azimuth change value, a pitch change value and a roll change value.

4. The automatic photographic device of claim 2, wherein the second sense unit is a gyroscope sensor, and the rotational velocity change comprises a rotational velocity change value along the X-axis, the Y-axis or the Z-axis.

5. The automatic photographic device of claim 2, wherein the third sense unit is an accelerometer sensor, and the straight acceleration change comprises a straight acceleration change value along the X-axis, the Y-axis or the Z-axis.

6. The automatic photographic device of claim 1, wherein the determination module further comprises a register for storing a plurality of sense results corresponding to a plurality of time points.

7. The automatic photographic device of claim 6, wherein the determination module further comprises a comparison module for comparing the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points, so as to generate the control signal.

8. The automatic photographic device of claim 7, wherein the comparison module further predetermines a threshold and a predetermined period for comparing whether differences between the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points are larger than the threshold within the predetermined period.

9. The automatic photographic device of claim 8, wherein when the differences between the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points are not larger than the threshold within the predetermined period, the determination module generates the control signal to make the photographic module process the photographic operation.

10. The automatic photographic device of claim 1, wherein the photographic operation comprises a shutter operation, an aperture operation and an international standards organization operation, and at least an optical sense module is utilized for obtaining an image data corresponding to the mobile device.

11. An automatic photographic method for an automatic photographic device of a mobile device, the automatic photographic method comprising:

generating a sense result according to a position change of the mobile device;

generating a control signal according to the sense result; and

processing a photographic operation according to the control signal;

wherein the automatic photographic device is located within a three-dimensional space including the X-axis, the Y-axis and the Z-axis perpendicular to each other and the position change comprises a rotational angle change, a rotational velocity change and a straight acceleration change.

12. The automatic photographic method of claim 11, further utilizing a first sense unit, a second sense unit and a third sense unit for generating the sense result according to the rotational angle change, the rotational velocity change and the straight acceleration change, respectively.

13. The automatic photographic method of claim 12, further utilizing the first sense unit to sense an azimuth change value, a pitch change value and a roll change value.

14. The automatic photographic method of claim 12, further utilizing the second sense unit to sense a rotational velocity change value along the X-axis, the Y-axis or the Z-axis.

15. The automatic photographic method of claim 12, further utilizing the third sense unit to sense a straight acceleration change value along the X-axis, the Y-axis or the Z-axis.

16. The automatic photographic method of claim 11, further utilizing register for storing a plurality of sense results corresponding to a plurality of timing points.

17. The automatic photographic method of claim 16, further utilizing a comparison module for comparing the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points, so as to generate the control signal.

18. The automatic photographic method of claim 17, further comparing whether differences between the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points are larger than a threshold within a predetermined period.

19. The automatic photographic method of claim 18, wherein when the differences between the plurality of sense results corresponding to the plurality of time points are not larger than the threshold within the predetermined period, the control signal is correspondingly generated to process the photographic operation.

20. The automatic photographic method of claim 11, wherein the photographic operation comprises a shutter operation, an aperture operation and an international standards organization operation, and at least an optical sense module is utilized for obtaining an image data corresponding to the mobile device.