Method and apparatus for displaying and recording images using multiple image capturing devices integrated into a single mobile device

• US 9,749,541 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tout
• Original Assignee: Tout
• Inventors: Cobb, Jonathan, Martinez, James, Kimelman, Jeremia, Velicer, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Huang, Frank
• Application Number:
  US14/254,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20140307101A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,231 Days
• 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:

recording an image of a first field of view associated with a first image capturing device of the plurality of integrated image capturing devices and storing the image of the first field of view in a single image stream;

displaying the image of the first field of view on a first region of a display of the mobile device during the recording and the storing;

displaying an image of a second field of view associated with a second image capturing device of the plurality of integrated image capturing devices on a second region of the display of the mobile device during the recording and the storing, wherein the first field of view and the second field of view face in opposite directions, wherein the image of the first field of view and the image of the second field of view are displayed simultaneously;

adjusting a first audio record level associated with the first image capturing device, independently of a second audio record level associated with the second image capturing device, so that the first audio record level is different from the second audio record level;

ceasing the recording and the storing of the image of the first field of view; and

recording the image of the second field of view and storing the image of the second field of view into the single image stream so that the single image stream switches from the first field of view to the second field of view.

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

3. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the image of the first field of view or the image of the second field of view 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 image of the first field of view and the displaying the image of the second field of view are performed in real time as the image of the first field of view and the image of the second field of view are captured.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the single image stream is stored in a memory of the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the single image stream is stored in a remote memory separate from the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the recording the image of the first field of view and the recording the image of the second field of view is performed in response to a command from a user of the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording the image of the first field of view is performed during the displaying the image of the second field of view, but without recording the image of the second field of view.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the ceasing and the recording the image of the second field of view are performed in response to a command from a user of the mobile device.

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

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first image capturing device is a front-facing camera of the mobile phone, and the second image capturing device is a rear-facing camera of the mobile phone.

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

15. 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 an image of a first field of view associated with a first image capturing device of the plurality of integrated image capturing devices, wherein the recording the image of the first field of view stores the image of the first field of view at least temporarily in a single image stream in a memory of the mobile device;

recording an image of a second field of view associated with a second image capturing device of the plurality of integrated image capturing devices, wherein the first field of view and the second field of view face in opposite directions, wherein the recording the image of the second field of view stores the image of the second field of view in the single image stream so that the single image stream switches from the first field of view to the second field of view; and

adjusting a first audio record level associated with the first image capturing device, independently of a second audio record level associated with the second image capturing device, so that the first audio record level is different from the second audio record level.