Method and apparatus for photographing an image of digital camera in a mobile communication terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-Kwon Yoon, Min-Jung Kim, Jae-Hyun Park
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Abstract
A method is provided for photographing an image in a digital camera. The method includes, upon power-on of the camera, disabling a camera function unit that photographs and processes an image, and displaying a preset screen; enabling the camera function unit and displaying a preview screen, if a key for displaying a preview screen is input; stopping displaying the preview screen by disabling the camera function unit, if the key for displaying a preview screen is released; and enabling the camera function unit and performing photographing, if a key for photographing is input.
Claims3
A method for photographing an image in a digital camera, comprising:
- upon power-on of the camera, disabling a camera function unit that photographs and processes an image, and displaying a preset screen;
- enabling the camera function unit and displaying a preview screen, if a key for displaying a preview screen is input;
- stopping displaying the preview screen by disabling the camera function unit, if the key for displaying a preview screen is released;
- and
- enabling the camera function unit and performing photographing, if a key for photographing is input,
- wherein the preset screen includes a blank screen.
A digital camera for photographing an image, comprising:
- a lens unit for forming an optical image of a subject on an image sensor;
- the image sensor with a plurality of photo detectors integrated as individual pixels, for converting image information of a subject into electrical data;
- an Image Signal Processor (ISP) for processing an image signal received from the image sensor;
- a display unit for displaying a preview screen and a photographed image;
- a storage for storing the photographed image and data needed to operate the digital camera;
- an input unit with a key for photographing and a key for displaying a preview screen, for receiving a user input;
- and
- a controller for, upon power-on of the camera, disabling a camera function unit that includes the lens, the image sensor and the ISP, and displaying a preset screen on the display unit;
- enabling the camera function unit and displaying the preview screen, if the key for displaying a preview screen is input;
- stopping displaying the preview screen by disabling the camera function unit, if the key for displaying a preview screen is released;
- and enabling the camera function unit and performing photographing, if the key for photographing is input,
- wherein the preset screen includes a blank screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.