Method and apparatus for acquiring additional information of electronic device including camera

• US 9,465,815 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2015
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choe, Seungyeon, Lee, Jaehwan, Byun, Chanil
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LUONG TRUNG
• Application Number:
  US14/708,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341590A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/00 Pattern recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/011 Emotion or mood input determined on the basis of sensed human body parameters such as pulse, heart rate or beat, temperature of skin, facial expressions, iris, voice pitch, brain activity patterns
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/03 Data mining
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/174 Facial expression recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/179 metadata assisted face recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32122 in a separate device, e.g. in a memory or on a display separate from image data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3225 of data relating to an image, a page or a document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3228 further additional information (metadata) being comprised in the identification information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3229 further additional information (metadata) being comprised in the file name (including path, e.g. directory or folder names at one or more higher hierarchical levels)
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/325 Modified version of the image, e.g. part of the image, image reduced in size or resolution, thumbnail or screennail
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3252 Image capture parameters, e.g. resolution, illumination conditions, orientation of the image capture device H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3273 Display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3276 of a customised additional information profile, e.g. a profile specific to a user ID
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• 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 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 : the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for acquiring additional information of an electronic device including a camera are provided. The method includes displaying a preview image when the camera is driven and collecting information and situation information about a subject, extracting shutter attribute information according to the collected information; displaying a shutter button corresponding to the shutter attribute information, and storing the preview image received from the camera, the situation information, and the shutter attribute information in response to a selection of a user for the shutter button.

Claims

1. A method for acquiring additional information of an electronic device including a camera, the method comprising:

displaying a preview image when the camera is driven and collecting information and situation information about a subject;

extracting shutter attribute information according to the collected information;

displaying a shutter button corresponding to the shutter attribute information; and

storing the preview image received from the camera, the situation information, and the shutter attribute information in response to a selection of a user for the shutter button.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the situation information and the shutter attribute information are stored in a field separately generated in additional information Exchangeable image file format (Exif) of the image received from the camera.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the shutter attribute information is extracted according to at least one of a weighted value assigned to the information and the situation information about the subject.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the situation information includes at least one of a piece of weather information at a display time of the preview image, brightness information, sound information, Social Networking Service (SNS) information about the subject, and shared sensor information of the subject.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the shutter button includes adjusting the shutter button when the adjustment of the shutter button is detected and displaying the adjusted shutter button.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing includes storing the preview image received from the camera in at least one of a gallery and a folder according to the shutter attribute information.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein when the subject is a person, the shutter attribute information is emotion information, and when the subject is an object, the shutter attribute information is object information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein when the shutter attribute information is emotion information, the shutter button according to the emotion information is displayed by analyzing at least one of a facial expression of the person, SNS information about the person, and shared sensor information of the person.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein when the shutter attribute information is object information, the shutter button according to the object information is displayed.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the shutter button is a button to which at least one of an icon and an emoticon corresponding to the shutter attribute information is applied.

11. An apparatus for acquiring additional information of an electronic device including a camera, the apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display a preview image; and

a controller configured to;

collect information and situation information about a subject included in the preview image displayed on the display unit when the camera is driven,

extract shutter attribute information according to the collected information,

display a shutter button corresponding to the shutter attribute information, and

store the preview image received from the camera, the situation information, and the shutter attribute information in response to a selection of a user for the shutter button.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller generates a field for the situation information and the shutter attribute information in additional information Exchangeable image file format (Exif) of the preview image received from the camera and stores the situation information and the shutter attribute information.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller extracts the shutter attribute information according to a weighted value assigned to at least one of the information and the situation information about the subject.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the controller collects at least one of a piece of situation information among weather information at a display time of the preview image, brightness information, sound information, Social Networking Service (SNS) information about the subject, and shared sensor information of the subject.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller adjusts the shutter button when the adjustment of the shutter button is detected and controls the display unit to display the adjusted shutter button.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the controller stores the preview image received from the camera in at least one of a gallery and a folder according to the shutter attribute information.

17. The apparatus of claim 11,

wherein, when the subject is a person, the controller determines that the shutter attribute information is emotion information, and

wherein, when the subject is an object, the controller determines that the shutter attribute information is object information.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein when the shutter attribute information is emotion information, the controller analyzes at least one of a facial expression of the person, SNS information about the person, and shared sensor information of the person, and controls the display unit to display the shutter button according to the emotion information.

19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein when the shutter attribute information is object information, the controller controls the display to display the shutter button according to the object information.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the controller displays the shutter button to which at least one of an icon and an emoticon corresponding to the shutter attribute information is applied.