ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMAGE DATA PROCESSING

• US 20150271396A1
• Filed: 07/03/2014
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Seung Eun, Park, Jeong Min, Hyun, Eun Jung, Jeon, Seung Young
• Granted Patent: US 9,560,272 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0304 Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/12 with one sensor only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/57 Mechanical or electrical details of cameras or camera modules specially adapted for being embedded in other devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/80 Camera processing pipelines; Components thereof

Abstract

An electronic device for processing image data including a camera module configured to obtain the image data. The electronic device also including a control module configured to set at least one pointing object in the image data and configured to control the image data on an object corresponding to a position of the set pointing object according to at least one of a position and movement of the at least one pointing object.

Claims

1. An electronic device for processing image data comprising:

a camera module configured to obtain image data; and

a control module configured to control the image data on an object corresponding to a position of at least one pointing object among the image data obtained from the camera module according to a position and movement of the at least one pointing object.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the control module is configured to set the at least one pointing object in the image data.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control module is configured to set the at least one pointing object in at least one pre-stored pointing object.

4. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control module is configured to analyze the image data obtained in real time after a movement does not occur in the camera module for a critical time and extract the at least one pointing object.

5. The electronic device according to claim 2, further comprising an input module configured to select at least one object from the image data, wherein the control module is configured to set the selected at least one object as the at least one pointing object if a movement does not occur in the camera module for a critical time.

6. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein, after at least one change in the position and movement of the at least one pointing object is detected in a space for obtaining the image data, the control module is configured to control the image data through a function including at least one of cropping, zoom-in, zoom-out, partial zoom-in, partial zoom-out, partial removal, out-focusing, composite, distortion, and augmented reality in accordance to the change.

7. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the control module is configured to set a coordinate value of the at least one pointing object in a space for obtaining the image data.

8. The electronic device according to claim 7, wherein when the at least one pointing object moves closer to or farther away from the camera module in the space, the control module is configured to perform a control to zoom-in or zoom-out image data corresponding to an area that the at least one pointing object points to according to a change in a coordinate value resulting from the movement.

9. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein after food is identified from the image data, the control module is configured to check calories of food that the at least one pointing object points to and is configured to calculate a total calorie intake.

10. An image data processing method comprising:

obtaining image data;

extracting an object corresponding to a position of at least one pointing object from the image data;

checking at least one of a position and movement of the at least one pointing object; and

controlling and outputting image data corresponding to the extracted object according to the check result.

11. The method according to claim 10, after the obtaining of the image data, further comprising setting at least one pointing object in the obtained image data.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the setting of the at least one pointing object comprises setting the at least one pointing object in at least one pre-stored pointing object.

13. The method according to claim 10, wherein the setting of the at least one pointing object comprises, if a movement does not occur in the image data for a critical time, extracting and setting at least one pointing object by analyzing the image data obtained in real time.

14. The method according to claim 10, wherein the setting of the at least one pointing object further comprises receiving a select signal on at least one object among at least one object included in the image data and setting an object corresponding to the select signal as the at least one pointing object.

15. The method according to claim 10, wherein the controlling and outputting of the image data comprises, after at least one change in a position and movement of the at least one pointing object in a space for obtaining the image data, controlling the image data through a function including at least one of cropping, zoom-in, zoom-out, partial zoom-in, partial zoom-out, partial removal, out-focusing, composite, distortion, and augmented reality in correspondence to the change.

16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the setting of the at least one pointing object comprises setting a coordinate value of the at least one pointing object in a space for obtaining the image data.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the controlling of the image data comprises, when the at least one pointing object moves closer to or farther away from the camera module obtaining the image data in the space, performing a control to zoom-in or zoom-out image data corresponding to an area that the at least one pointing object points to according to a change in a coordinate value resulting from the movement and output the image data.

18. The method according to claim 10, wherein the controlling and outputting of image data comprises, after food is identified from the image data, checking calories of food that the at least one pointing object points to and calculating and outputting a total calorie intake by controlling and outputting the image data.