Mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal

• US 9,483,501 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2014
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Jeonghyun, Lee, Jaemoo, Cho, Kyungmin, Song, Minah, Park, Jongkyeong
• Primary Examiner(s): AGGARWAL, YOGESH K
• Application Number:
  US14/341,603
• Publication Number:
  US 20150178318A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 348/220.1, 348/222.1, 348/231.3
• 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: H04N 1/2116 Picture signal recording combined with imagewise recording, e.g. photographic recording photographic cameras G03B19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/212 Motion video recording combined with still video recording television signal recording H04N5/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2125 Display of information relating to the still picture recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/2166 for mass storage, e.g. in document filing systems information retrieval G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• 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

Abstract

Provided is a mobile terminal including: a camera; and a controller that captures a moving image using the camera, in which wherein in response to a control command that is applied in a state where the moving image is captured using the camera, the controller captures a static image, and after the capturing of the static image is completed, the controller performs processing that associates at least one portion of the captured moving image with the static image in such a manner that information on the at least one portion of the captured moving image is provided along with the captured static image.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a camera;

a display; and

a controller capable of;

capturing a moving image using the camera, based on a predetermined condition;

capturing a static image in response to a control input, while the moving image is captured in the background;

associating at least a part of the captured moving image with the static image, wherein the at least part of the captured moving image is captured for a predetermined time that is set based on a time point at which the control input is applied,

displaying, on the display, the static image among a plurality of static images in a memory;

receiving a predetermined-type touch input applied to a region comprising the static image displayed on the display; and

reproducing the at least part of the captured moving image in response to the predetermined-type touch input, wherein the controller recognizes pupils of user'"'"'s eyes using the camera, and in response to detection of the recognized pupils as being fixed on the static image for a predetermined time, the controller reproduces one portion of the captured moving image associated with the static image.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller matches with the static image the at least part of the captured moving image that has been captured for a predetermined time, with a point in time at which the control input is applied serving as a reference.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein the controller outputs a graphic object indicating that the captured moving image is associated with one region of the static image being output.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein when a touch is applied to the graphic object, the controller outputs the at least part of the captured moving image that is associated with the static image.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein if one portion of the captured moving image that corresponds to the static image is output while the moving image is reproduced, the controller performs different visual processing to the one portion of the captured moving image than when the other portions of the captured moving image are output, in such a manner that the static image corresponding to the one portion of the captured moving image is obtained.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein when the outputting of one portion of the captured moving image that is associated with the static image is finished, the controller outputs the static image with which the one portion of the moving image is associated, back to the display.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1,

wherein when the capturing of the static image is completed, the controller outputs to one portion of an output region of the display multiple graphic objects that correspond to time periods at which the captured moving image is captured, respectively, in order that the at least part of the captured moving image that is processed to be associated with the static image is selected, and wherein when a predetermined-type touch is applied to at least one or more, among the multiple graphic objects, the controller performs processing that associates with the static image one portion of the captured moving image that corresponds to the graphic object to which the predetermined-type touch is applied.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein at least one portion of the captured moving image that is processed to be associated with the static image is one portion of the captured moving image that corresponds to one already-selected portion of the static image.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 8,

wherein when a predetermined-type touch is applied to one portion of the static image being output, the controller extracts at least one portion of the moving image that corresponds to the one portion of the captured moving image, to which the touch is applied, and performs processing that associates the one extracted portion of the moving image with one portion of the static image.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9, wherein a graphic object indicating that the one extracted portion of the moving image is associated is output to the vicinity of one portion of the static image with which the one extracted portion of the moving image is associated.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein when a predetermined-type touch is applied to the graphic object, the controller outputs the one extracted portion of the moving image to one portion of an output region of the display, which corresponds to the one portion of the static image.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein image frames that result from recording light reflected from objects and performing digital processing are sequentially output to the display, and wherein the controller enlarges one portion of the image frame when a touch is applied to one portion of an output region of the display, the controller captures the static image, based on a control input that is applied in a state where the one portion of the image frame is enlarged, and the controller performs processing that associates at least one portion of the moving image that is captured from the image frames that are sequentially output from the camera and that are not enlarged, with the static image that is captured in the state where the one portion of the image frame is enlarged, regardless of the enlarged static image.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein when a control for outputting at least one portion of the moving image that is associated with the enlarged static image is applied, the controller outputs the at least one portion of the moving image, and wherein while the at least one portion of the moving image is output, the enlarged static image is output to one portion of the output region of the display.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the number of the cameras each of which has a different image-capturing direction is two or greater, wherein among the at least two cameras, one camera, captures the moving image, and the other camera captures the static image, based on a control input that is applied while the one camera captures the moving image, and wherein, the controller performs processing that associates the moving image captured by the other camera with the static image captured by the one camera in such a manner that information relating to the moving image is provided to the static image.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein in response to activation of the camera, the moving image is captured in the background.

16. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, comprising:

activating a camera;

capturing a moving image in the background using the camera, based on predetermined condition;

capturing a static image in response to a control input from a controller while the moving image is captured in the background;

associating at least a part of the captured moving image with the static image, the at least part of the captured moving image is captured for a predetermined time that is set based on a time point at which the control input is applied;

displaying, on a display, the static image among a plurality of static images in a memory;

receiving a predetermined-type touch input applied to a region comprising the static image displayed on the display; and

reproducing the captured moving image in response to the predetermined-type touch input, wherein the controller recognizes pupils of user'"'"'s eyes using the camera, and in response to detection of the recognized pupils as being fixed on the static image for a predetermined time, the controller reproduces one portion of the captured moving image associated with the static image.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein a graphic object indicating that the captured moving image is associated with the static image is output to one portion of an output region of the display.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein when a predetermined-type touch is applied to the graphic object, the captured moving image that is associated with the static image is output.

17. The method of 16, wherein the at least one portion of the moving image that is associated with the static image is one portion of the moving image that has been captured for a predetermined time, with a point in time at which the user request is received serving as a reference.