Method for processing image and portable terminal having camera thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsWoon Ki Park, Sang Won Kim, Kyoo Sung Choi, In Kyung Ryu, Seong Chan Byun
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Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for processing image data in a portable terminal including obtaining a first image having a first resolution for display from an image obtaining unit of the portable terminal, receiving a semi-shutter signal during display of the first image on a display unit of the portable terminal, obtaining a second image having a second resolution from the image obtaining unit in response to the semi-shutter signal prior to receiving a full-shutter signal, and capturing a still image from the second image when the full-shutter signal is received.
Claims19
A method for processing image data in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- obtaining a first image having a first resolution for display from an image obtaining unit of the portable terminal;
- receiving a semi-shutter signal during display of the first image on a display unit of the portable terminal;
- obtaining a second image having a second resolution from the image obtaining unit in response to the semi-shutter signal prior to receiving a full-shutter signal;
- capturing a still image from the second image when the full-shutter signal is received;
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- obtaining a third image having a same resolution as that of the first image by resizing the second image in response to maintaining of the semi-shutter signal, and displaying the third image on the display unit.
A portable terminal, comprising:
- a camera which includes an image obtaining unit to obtain a first image having a first resolution and a second image having a second resolution;
- a shutter which selectively generates a semi-shutter signal and a full-shutter signal;
- a display unit which displays the first image;
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- a controller which controls display of the first image on the display unit when the camera is activated, and controls the image obtaining unit to obtain the second image when the semi-shutter signal is generated from the shutter during the display of the first image on the display unit and prior to generation of the full-shutter, and controls to obtain a third image having a same resolution as that of the first image by resizing the second image in response to maintaining of the semi-shutter signal, and to display the third image on the display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.