Camera device and method for camera device
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsWen-Hsiang Yu, Chun-Wei Chang
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Abstract
A method applied to a camera device includes receiving one or all of an angular velocity signal and an acceleration signal, selecting one of predetermined motion modes according to the one or all of the angular velocity signal and the acceleration signal, configuring one or more of an exposure time of a camera, an auto focus (AF) configuration of the camera, an auto white balance (AWB) configuration of the camera, and an auto exposure (AE) configuration of the camera according to the selected motion mode, and capturing an image or recording a video according to the one or more of the exposure time of the camera, the AF configuration of the camera, the AWB configuration of the camera, and the AE configuration of the camera.
Claims20
A method applied to a camera device comprising:
- receiving one or all of an angular velocity signal and an acceleration signal;
- selecting one of predetermined motion modes according to the one or all of the angular velocity signal and the acceleration signal;
- configuring one or more of an exposure time of a camera, an auto white balance (AWB) configuration of the camera, and an auto exposure (AE) configuration of the camera according to the selected motion mode;
- configuring an auto focus (AF) configuration of the camera, wherein if magnitudes of one or more of vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are lower than a predetermined threshold, an AF speed of the AF configuration is configured to be a fast value, and if the magnitudes of the one or more of the vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are greater than the predetermined threshold, the AF speed is configured to be a medium value;
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- capturing an image or recording a video according to the one or more of the exposure time of the camera, the AF configuration of the camera, the AWB configuration of the camera, and the AE configuration of the camera;
- wherein the predetermined motion modes comprise a walk mode and a rotate mode, a first AF speed is determined according to the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal of the walk mode and a second AF speed is determined according to the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal of the rotate mode, and the first AF speed is different from the second AF speed.
A camera device comprising:
- a camera;
- one or more processing components electrically connected to the camera;
- a memory electrically connected to the one or more processing components;
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- one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processing components, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
- receiving one or all of an angular velocity signal and an acceleration signal;
- selecting one of predetermined motion modes according to the one or all of the angular velocity signal and the acceleration signal;
- configuring one or more of an exposure time of the camera, an auto white balance (AWB) configuration of the camera, and an auto exposure (AE) configuration of the camera according to the selected motion mode;
- configuring an AF configuration of the camera, wherein if magnitudes of one or more of vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are lower than a predetermined threshold, an AF speed of the AF configuration is configured to be a fast value, and if the magnitudes of the one or more of the vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are greater than the predetermined threshold, the AF speed is configured to be a medium value;
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- capturing an image or recording a video according to the one or more of the exposure time of the camera, the AF configuration of the camera, the AWB configuration of the camera, and the AE configuration of the camera;
- wherein the predetermined motion modes comprise a walk mode and a rotate mode, a first AF speed is determined according to the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal of the walk mode and a second AF speed is determined according to the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal of the rotate mode, and the first AF speed is different from the second AF speed.
A camera device comprising:
- a camera;
- one or more processing components electrically connected to the camera;
- a memory electrically connected to the one or more processing components;
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- one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processing components, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
- receiving one or all of an angular velocity signal and an acceleration signal;
- configuring an AF configuration of the camera, wherein if magnitudes of one or more of vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are lower than a predetermined threshold, an AF speed of the AF configuration is configured to be a fast value, and if the magnitudes of the one or more of the vectors in the angular velocity signal or the acceleration signal are greater than the predetermined threshold, the AF speed is configured to be a medium value;
- configuring an exposure time of a camera and a gain of the camera according to an accuracy of an optical image stabilization (OIS) compensation, or only configuring the gain of the camera according to the accuracy of the OIS compensation;
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- capturing an image or recording a video according to the exposure time, the AF configuration, and the gain of the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.