Portable device, photographing method, and program
AssigneeSony Mobile Communications Inc.
InventorYasuhiro YOSHIOKA
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus that includes a camera unit that captures image data; a display unit that displays the image data captured by the camera unit; a control unit that sets a photographing target region specified at a desired position on a screen of the display unit, and instructs the camera unit to start photographing when a photographing target is detected in the photographing target region in the image data captured by the camera unit; and a memory unit that stores an image captured by the camera unit after the instruction to start photographing.
Claims19
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a camera unit that captures image data;
- a display unit that displays the image data captured by the camera unit;
- a control unit that sets a photographing target region specified at a desired position on a screen of the display unit, and instructs the camera unit to start photographing when a photographing target is detected in the photographing target region in the image data captured by the camera unit;
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- a memory unit that stores an image captured by the camera unit after the instruction to start photographing.
An information processing method performed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- capturing image data by a camera unit;
- displaying, by a display, the image data captured by the camera unit;
- setting a photographing target region specified at a desired position on a screen of the display unit;
- instructing the camera unit to start photographing when a photographing target is detected in the photographing target region in the image data captured by the camera unit;
- and
- storing, by a memory, an image captured by the camera unit after the instruction to start photographing.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a process comprising:
- capturing image data by a camera unit;
- displaying the image data captured by the camera unit;
- setting a photographing target region specified at a desired position on a screen of the display unit;
- instructing the camera unit to start photographing when a photographing target is detected in the photographing target region in the image data captured by the camera unit;
- and
- storing an image captured by the camera unit after the instruction to start photographing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.