METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AND RECORDING IMAGES USING MULTIPLE IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICES INTEGRATED INTO A SINGLE MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20140307101A1
• Filed: 04/16/2014
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tout
• Original Assignee: Tout
• Inventors: COBB, JONATHAN, Martinez, James, Kimelman, Jeremia, Velicer, Scott
• Granted Patent: US 9,749,541 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/169
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/802 involving processing of the sound signal H04N9/806, H04N9/835 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A method for capturing images using a mobile device that includes a plurality of integrated image capturing devices having a plurality of different fields of view includes displaying a first image of a first field of view associated with a first one of the plurality of image capturing devices on a first region of a display of the mobile device, and displaying a second image of a second field of view associated with a second one of the plurality of image capturing devices on a second region of the display of the mobile device, wherein the first image and the second image are displayed simultaneously.

Claims

1. A method for capturing images using a mobile device that includes a plurality of integrated image capturing devices having a plurality of different fields of view, the method comprising:

displaying a first image of a first field of view associated with a first one of the plurality of image capturing devices on a first region of a display of the mobile device; and

displaying a second image of a second field of view associated with a second one of the plurality of image capturing devices on a second region of the display of the mobile device,

wherein the first image and the second image are displayed simultaneously.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first image or the second image is a still image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first image or the second image is a video image.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first region of the display and the second region of the display are positioned side-by-side on the display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first region of the display overlaps the second region of the display.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying the first image and the displaying the second image are performed in real time as the first image and the second image are captured.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

recording the first image, wherein the recording stores the first image at least temporarily.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the first image is stored in a memory of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the first image is stored in a remote memory separate from the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the recording is performed in response to a command from a user of the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the recording is performed while continuing to display the second image, but without recording the second image.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the first image is stored in the memory as a stream.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

ceasing recording of the first image; and

recording the second image, wherein the recording the second image stores the second image in the stream so that the stream switches from the first field of view to the second field of view.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the ceasing and the recording the second image are performed in response to a command from a user of the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

adjusting a first audio level associated with the first image, wherein the first audio level is different from a second audio level associated with the second image.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a mobile phone.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first one of the plurality of image capturing devices is a front-facing camera of the mobile phone, and the second one of the plurality of image capturing devices is a rear-facing camera of the mobile phone.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is a tablet computer.

19. A method for capturing images using a mobile device that includes a plurality of integrated image capturing devices having a plurality of different fields of view, the method comprising:

recording a first image of a first field of view associated with a first one of the plurality of image capturing devices, wherein the recording stores the first image at least temporarily in a memory of the mobile device; and

displaying a second image of a second field of view associated with a second one of the plurality of image capturing devices on a display of the mobile device,

wherein the recording and the displaying are performed simultaneously.

20. A method for capturing images using a mobile device that includes a plurality of integrated image capturing devices having a plurality of different fields of view, the method comprising:

recording a first image of a first field of view associated with a first one of the plurality of image capturing devices, wherein the recording the first image stores the first image at least temporarily as a stream in a memory of the mobile device; and

recording a second image of a second field of view associated with a second one of the plurality of image capturing devices, wherein the recording the second image stores the second image in the stream.