Method and apparatus for operating camera function in portable terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsCheol-Ho CHEONG, Dong-Hoon KIM
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for operating a camera function in a portable terminal are provided. State information representing at least one of a direction and a rotation state of the portable terminal is obtained, and at least one of a sequence of reading an image from a camera sensor and an appropriate user interface is determined depending on the state information. Thus, the camera function is performed depending on the determined sequence or user interface.
Claims20
A method for operating a camera function in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- obtaining state information representing at least one of a direction and a rotation state of the portable terminal;
- determining at least one of a sequence of reading an image from a camera sensor and a user interface depending on the state information;
- and
- performing the camera function depending on at least one of the sequence and user interface.
An apparatus for operating a camera function in a portable terminal, comprising:
- a state information recognizer for obtaining state information representing at least one of a direction and a rotation state of the portable terminal;
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- a controller for determining at least one of a sequence of reading an image from a camera sensor and a user interface depending on the state information, and controlling the camera function for capturing, storing and displaying an input image depending on at least one of the sequence and user interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.