Method of providing OSD in mobile communication terminal using Q-camera

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of providing an on screen display (OSD) in a mobile communication terminal using a Q-camera. The method comprises: entering into a viewfinder mode, and receiving image data inputted from a camera sensor as image data of the viewfinder mode when an operation mode of the mobile communication terminal switches into a camera mode; if an OSD menu is set, overwriting an OSD image corresponding to a setting value of the OSD menu with the image data of the viewfinder mode, and then updating a display screen of the mobile communication terminal with the overwritten data; and encoding the image data of the viewfinder mode to perform the photographing if there is a request for photographing. According to the method of this invention, only the actually changed OSD image is selectively employed to overwrite with the image data of the viewfinder mode to update the display screen, and thereby a partial OSD function can be realized.

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