GESTURE RESPONSIVE IMAGE CAPTURE CONTROL AND/OR OPERATION ON IMAGE

• US 20140204247A1
• Filed: 05/10/2012
• Published: 07/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Bilgen, Aras, Kelley, Sean V.
• Granted Patent: US 9,088,728 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/240.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with controlling capture of images and/or processing captured images are disclosed herein. In embodiments, a storage medium may include instructions configured to enable a device having an image capture component, in response to execution of the instructions by the device, to enable the device to provide one or more sendees to control the image capture component responsive to a gesture, to perform a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture, or to do both. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed,

Claims

1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions configured to enable a device having an image capture component, in response to execution of the instructions by the device, to enable the device to provide one or more services to control a setting of the image capture component responsive to a gesture, to perform a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture, or to do both.

2. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more services to control a setting of the image capture component include one or more services to control a zoom factor of the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

3. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the one or more services to control a zoom factor of the image capture component is configured to control the zoom factor responsive to a finger span of a pinch gesture.

4. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more services to perform a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component include one or more services to crop an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

5. The at least one computer-readable storage medium of claim 4, wherein the one or more services to crop an image captured by the image capture component is configured to crop an image captured by the image capture component responsive to a center of a finger span of a pinch gesture.

6. A method for operating a device having an image capture component, comprising:

receiving, by the device, input of a gesture; and

controlling the image capture component responsive to the gesture, performing a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture, or doing both.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein controlling the image capture component includes controlling a setting of the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein performing a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component includes cropping an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

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12. An apparatus comprising:

an image capture component configured to capture an image; and

one or more logic units coupled with the image capture component, and configured to control a setting of the image capture component responsive to a gesture, perform a post-capture processing operation on an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture, or do both.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more logic units are configured to control a zoom factor of the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the one or more logic units are configured to control the zoom factor responsive to a finger span of a pinch gesture.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more logic units are configured to crop an image captured by the image capture component responsive to the gesture.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the one or more logic units is configured to crop an image captured by the image capture component responsive to a center of a finger span of a pinch gesture.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more logic units comprises a gesture detector configured to map a finger span of a pinch gesture to a zoom setting of the image capture component.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more logic units comprises a gesture detector configured to map a center of a finger span of a pinch gesture to a center of cropping for an image captured by the image capture component.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the one or more logic units comprises an image stream processor coupled with the gesture detector, and configured to cooperate with the gesture detector to provide an image of a current view of the image capture component for a user of the device to use to gesture a control of the image capture component.

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein the one or more logic units comprises an image stream processor coupled with gesture detector, and configured to cooperate with the gesture detector to provide an image of a current view of the image capture component for a user of the device to use to gesture an operation to be performed on an image captured by the image capture component.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the image stream processor is configured to crop a first image captured by the image capture component in response to a gesture of a cropping operation to be performed on the first image.

22. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the one or more logic units further comprises an image capture controller coupled with the image stream processor, wherein the image capture controller is configured to provide the control to the image capture controller, and the image capture controller is configured to provide the control to the image capture component.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the apparatus is a selected one of a camera, a smartphone, a computing tablet, or a laptop computer.

24. The apparatus of any one of claim 15, wherein the apparatus is a selected one of a camera, a smartphone, a computing tablet, or a laptop computer.

25. An apparatus comprising:

an image capture component configured to capture an image;

a gesture detector configured to map a gesture to control a setting of the image capture component, to an operation to be performed on an image captured by the image capture component, or to both;

an image stream processor coupled with gesture detector, and configured to cooperate with the gesture detector to provide an image of a current view of the image capture component for a user of the device to use to gesture the control setting, the operation, or both; and

an image capture controller coupled with the image stream processor, and configured to provide the image stream processor with the current view, and to control a setting of the image capture component responsive to the control setting provided by the image stream processor, wherein the image stream processor is further configured to provide the control setting to the image capture component responsive to a mapping to the control setting by the gesture detector.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the control setting comprises a zoom setting, or the operation comprises a cropping operation.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the apparatus is a selected one of a camera, a smartphone, a computing tablet, or a laptop computer.

28. An apparatus comprising:

an image capture component configured to capture an image;

a gesture detector configured to map a finger span of a pinch gesture to a zoom setting of the image capture component, and to map a center of the finger span of the pinch gesture to a center of cropping for an image captured by the image capture component;

an image stream processor coupled with gesture detector, and configured to cooperate with the gesture detector to provide an image of a current view of the image capture component for a user of the device to use to gesture the zoom setting and the cropping operation; and

an image capture controller coupled with the image stream processor, and configured to provide the image stream processor with the current view, and to control the image capture component responsive to the zoom setting provided by the image stream processor, wherein the image stream processor is further configured to provide the zoom setting to the image capture component responsive to a mapping to the zoom setting by the gesture detector;

wherein the apparatus is a selected one of a camera, a smartphone, a computing tablet, or a laptop computer.