US 2026/0089394 A1Published application

Hand movement based zoom in out of camera preview

AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC

InventorsKolli Kishor, Rajesh Kumar, Jilji N. Elayath, Satheesh Thotasagara Vishakantappa

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Abstract

An electronic device, method, and computer program product provide improved zoom functionality for a hand-held electronic device. The electronic device includes a front camera and a back camera and a distance measuring unit to detect an amount of lateral movement of the electronic device relative to a user. The processor activates an automated (auto) zoom feature while an active camera is selected to receive and capture a first image. The processor: determines a starting distance from the electronic device to the user; and in response to detecting lateral motion of the electronic device relative to the user, while the auto zoom feature is activated with the selected active camera, perform, with the active camera, an automated zoom of the corresponding FOV by performing at least one of: zooming when the electronic device moves towards the first image; or zooming out when the electronic device moves away from the first image.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

an enclosure comprising a first surface and a second surface opposed to the first surface;
at least one display device comprising a first display incorporated into the first surface;
at least one image capturing devices including:
(i) a first image capturing device embedded in the first surface and having a first lens and that produces first image content;
and (ii) a second image capturing device embedded in the second surface and having a second lens that produces second image content;
at least one distance measuring unit;
and
at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one display device, the first image capturing device, the second image capturing device, and the at least one distance measuring unit, and configured to cause the electronic device to:
activate an automated (auto) zoom feature of the electronic device while one of the first and second image capturing devices is selected as an active camera to receive and capture a first image within a corresponding field of view (FOV) of the selected image capturing device;
determine a starting distance from the electronic device to a face or torso of a user;
in response to detecting lateral motion of the electronic device relative to the user while the auto zoom feature is activated with the selected image capturing device, perform, with the selected image capturing device, an automated zoom by the active image capturing device comprising at least one of:
zoom in with a corresponding lens of the active image capturing device upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved towards the first image;
or
zoom out with the corresponding lens upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved away from the first image.

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A method comprising:

activating an automated (auto) zoom feature of an electronic device during image capture by an active image capturing device (ICD) of multiple image capturing devices of the electronic device, the active_image capturing device having a field of view (FOV) that includes an image;
determine a starting distance of the electronic device from a face or torso of a user;
and
in response to detecting lateral motion of the electronic device relative to the user while the active image capturing device is receiving the image within the FOV, performing an automated zoom by the active image capturing device comprising at least one of:
zooming in with a corresponding lens of the active image capturing device upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved towards a first image;
or
zooming out with the corresponding lens of the active image capturing device upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved away from the first image.

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A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions that when executed by a processor of an electronic device, configure the electronic device to perform functions comprising:

activating an automated (auto) zoom feature of the electronic device, while one of a first image capturing device and second image capturing device is selected as an active image capturing device to receive and capture a first image within a corresponding field of view (FOV) of the selected active image capturing device;
determining a starting distance from the electronic device to a face or torso of a user;
and
in response to detecting lateral motion of the electronic device relative to the user while the auto zoom feature is activated with the selected active image capturing, perform, with the selected active image capturing device, an automated zoom by the active image capturing device comprising at least one of:
zooming out with a corresponding lens upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved towards the first image;
or
zooming in with the corresponding lens upon detecting that the electronic device has been moved away from the first image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/897,898Filed 26 Sep 2024
Published: 26 Mar 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 23/69
Control of cameras or camera modules: control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming
G01S 11/02
Systems for determining distance or velocity not using reflection or reradiation: using radio waves
H04N 23/611
Based on recognised objects: where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
H04N 23/632
Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters: for displaying or modifying preview…

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