Mobile terminal facilitating image capture mode switching, and method therefor

Abstract

A mobile terminal may be provided that includes: a touch screen which detects touch information including a touch pressure; a camera unit which is operable in a plurality of photographing modes; a control unit which, when a touch pressure having a magnitude greater than a predetermined magnitude is applied to the touch screen while photographing a subject in a first photographing mode among the plurality of photographing modes, switches the photographing mode to a second photographing mode and controls the subject to be photographed. Since the mobile terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention uses a control method based on a touch pressure, it is possible to very easily switching various photographing modes including the picture photographing mode and the video photographing mode.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.