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US 2014/0152858 A1Published application
Electronic device
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorsTakeshi YAGI, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Takayuki Sawajiri
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Abstract
An electronic device includes a camera; an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to a housing; a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor; and an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture.
Claims8
An electronic device comprising:
- a housing;
- a camera;
- an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to the housing;
- a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor;
- an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture;
- and
- a grasping form recognizing unit that recognizes a user's grasping form of the housing,
- wherein the activation control unit activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes the upright posture and the grasping form recognizing unit recognizes that the user's grasping form of the housing is not a grasping form of covering a lens of the camera.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a housing;
- a camera;
- an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to the housing;
- a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor;
- an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture;
- and
- a movement recognizing unit that recognizes movement of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor,
- wherein the activation control unit activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes the upright posture and the movement recognizing unit recognizes that the housing is shaken.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a housing;
- a camera;
- an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to the housing;
- a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor;
- an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture;
- and
- a pressure sensor that detects a pressure applied to a predetermined position of the housing,
- wherein the activation control unit activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes the upright posture and the pressure sensor detects a pressure applied to the predetermined position of the housing.
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An electronic device comprising:
- a housing;
- an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to the housing;
- a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor;
- an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture;
- and
- a plurality of other functions other than the function of the camera,
- wherein the activation control unit controls activation of the plurality of other functions in addition to the activation of the camera and activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes the upright posture and a predetermined function is activated.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.