Automatic photographing method and terminal based on use posture
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsHaibo Liu, Yibing Wang
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Abstract
The present invention relates to photographing technologies of terminals, and provides a photographing method and a terminal, so as to resolve an existing problem of complex operations when a user photographs. The method is applied to a mobile terminal equipped with at least one camera, and includes: determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal meets a preset condition, where the preset condition may include matching of a posture feature of the mobile terminal with a standard posture feature that is used to represent a posture feature of the mobile terminal when a user uses a first camera to photograph; and if the mobile terminal determines that the mobile terminal meets the preset condition, starting the first camera to photograph.
Claims14
A photographing method, implemented by a mobile phone, wherein the mobile phone comprises a front-facing camera, at least one sensor and a display screen, the method comprises:
- displaying a standby user interface;
- determining a posture of the mobile phone according to information obtained by the at least one sensor;
- automatically starting the front-facing camera to collect an image and displaying a photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera, when it is determined that the mobile phone changes from a first posture to a second posture, the second posture being a manner in which a long side of the display screen of the mobile phone is perpendicular to a ground, and the photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera comprising a photographing button;
- receiving a click on the photographing button;
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- in response to the click having been received, taking a photograph;
- displaying a prompt to query a user whether to start the front-facing camera when it is determined that the mobile phone changes from a first posture to a second posture for a first time;
- wherein automatically starting the front-facing camera to collect the image and displaying the photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera comprises:
- automatically starting the front-facing camera to collect an image and displaying a photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera after receiving a confirmation message from the user in response to the prompt.
A mobile phone comprising at least one processor, a memory storing instructions, a display screen, a front-facing camera and at least one sensor, wherein the instructions are executed by the at least one processor to cause the mobile phone to perform:
- displaying a standby user interface;
- determining a posture of the mobile phone according to information obtained by the at least one sensor;
- automatically starting the front-facing camera to collect an image and displaying a photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera, when it is determined that the mobile phone changes from a first posture to a second posture, the second posture being a manner in which a long side of the display screen of the mobile phone is perpendicular to a ground, and the photographing user interface corresponding to the front-facing camera comprising a photographing button;
- receiving a click on the photographing button;
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- in response to the click having been received, taking a photograph;
- displaying a prompt to query a user whether to start the front-facing camera when it is determined that the mobile phone changes from a first posture to a second posture for a first time;
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- automatically starting the front-facing camera to collect an image and displaying a photographing user interface correspond to the front-facing camera after receiving a confirmation message from the user in response to the prompt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.