Mobile terminal and panoramic photographing method for the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsNam Jin Kim, Seung Hyun Cho
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Abstract
A mobile terminal and panoramic photographing method for the same are provided. The panoramic photographing method includes displaying a preview image upon selection of a panoramic mode, successively capturing a first partial image and second partial image in response to input of a shooting start signal, setting a photographing direction through a comparison between the first partial image and second partial image, and producing a panoramic image in the set photographing direction. As a result, the user does not have to set the photographing direction to capture a panoramic image using a mobile terminal.
Claims16
A panoramic photographing method for a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
- displaying, upon selection of a panoramic mode, a preview image;
- successively capturing, in response to an input of a shooting start signal, a first partial image and second partial image;
- automatically determining a photographing direction in which a camera unit is being panned for taking panoramic image through a comparison between the first partial image and second partial image, wherein the photographing direction is set relative to the location of a comparison block having the smallest Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) value;
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- producing the panoramic image in the determined photographing direction.
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a camera unit for capturing partial images;
- a display unit for displaying a panoramic image comprising the captured partial images;
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- a control unit for controlling, during a panoramic mode, the camera unit to capture a first partial image and a second partial image, for automatically determining a photographing direction in which the camera unit is being panned for taking panoramic image through a comparison between the first partial image and second partial image, for producing the panoramic image in the determined photographing direction, and for controlling the display unit to display the produced panoramic image, wherein the photographing direction is set relative to the location of a comparison block having the smallest Mean Absolute Difference (MAD) value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.