ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING CAMERA OF THE SAME

• US 20160344925A1
• Filed: 05/09/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: JEONG, Seoghee
• Application Number:
  US15/149,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20160344925A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/18 in two or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3827 Portable transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/60 Control of cameras or camera modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6812 based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors

Abstract

An electronic device comprising: at least one camera; an accelerometer; a memory; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, configured to: detect a movement of the electronic device by using the accelerometer; and perform an operation associated with the at least one camera based on the movement.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

at least one camera;

an accelerometer;

a memory; and

at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, configured to;

detect a movement of the electronic device by using the accelerometer; and

perform an operation associated with the at least one camera based on the movement.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to transition the electronic device into a camera standby mode in response to a predetermined command.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the movement of the electronic device is caused by at least one of an impact, a tap, and a shake of the electronic device.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein:

the at least one processor is further configured to detect whether the electronic device is in a stationary state; and

the movement of the electronic device is detected after detecting that the electronic device is in the stationary state.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein detecting whether the electronic device is in the stationary state includes at least one of:

detecting whether an acceleration of the electronic device along a first axis is within a first threshold;

detecting whether the acceleration of the electronic device along a second axis is within a second threshold; and

detecting whether the acceleration of the electronic device along a third axis is within a third threshold.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the movement is performed based on an indication of at least one of an x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration that is provided by the accelerometer.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the operation is performed when at least one of an x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration of the electronic device meets a threshold.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the electronic device remains in a live preview state when the at least one of the x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration fails to meet the threshold.

9. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the operation is detected after a preset period following the movement of the electronic device.

10. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the operation is performed when no other movement of the electronic device is detected for a preset period following the movement of the electronic device.

11. A method for use in an electronic device, comprising:

detecting a movement of the electronic device by using an accelerometer; and

performing an operation associated with at least one camera based on the movement.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising transitioning the electronic device into a camera standby mode in response to a predetermined command.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the movement of the electronic device is caused by at least one of an impact, a tap, and a shake of the electronic device.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising detecting whether the electronic device is in a stationary state, wherein the movement of the electronic device is detected after detecting that the electronic device is in the stationary state.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein detecting whether the electronic device is in the stationary state includes at least one of:

detecting whether an acceleration of the electronic device along a first axis is within a first threshold;

detecting whether the acceleration of the electronic device along a second axis is within a second threshold; and

detecting whether the acceleration of the electronic device along a third axis is within a third threshold.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the movement is performed based on an indication of at least one of an x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration that is provided by the accelerometer.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the operation is performed when at least one of an x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration of the electronic device meets a threshold.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the electronic device remains in a live preview state when the at least one of the x-axis acceleration, y-axis acceleration, and z-axis acceleration fails to meet the threshold.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the operation is detected after a preset period following the movement of the electronic device.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more processor-executable instructions, which when executed by an electronic device cause the electronic device to perform a method comprising the steps of:

detecting a movement of the electronic device by using an accelerometer; and

performing an operation associated with at least one camera based on the movement.