Digital camera supporting intelligent self-timer mode and method of controlling the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJang-won Lee
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Abstract
Provided are a digital camera supporting an intelligent self-timer, which pauses an image capturing operation when an unwanted subject enters a subject composition and starts the image capturing operation later, and a method of controlling the digital camera. The digital camera includes a motion calculating unit which calculates degree of motions observed in image frames that are obtained in a chronologically successive manner, and an image capture start determining unit which determines whether to start an image capturing operation or not based on whether entry of an unwanted subject is detected or not from the calculated degree of motions and whether a set self-timer time is over or not.
Claims16
A digital camera comprising:
- a motion calculating unit which calculates degree of motions observed in image frames that are obtained in a chronologically successive manner only after a single self-timer time period is over and the self-timer time period is not extended;
- and
- an image capture start determining unit which determines whether entry of an unwanted subject from outside of an image frame to inside of the image frame is detected from the calculated degree of motions and determines whether to start an image capturing operation based on the determination regarding the unwanted subject.
A method of controlling a digital camera, the method comprising:
- determining whether a single set self-timer time is over;
- calculating motions observed in image frames that are obtained in a chronologically successive manner with a processor on the camera only after the single set self-timer time period is over and the single set self-timer time period is not extended;
- determining whether an unwanted subject entered an image from outside of an image frame to inside of the image frame based on the calculated motions;
- and
- determining whether to start an image capturing operation based on the determination regarding the unwanted subject.
A digital camera comprising:
- a motion calculating unit which calculates degree of motions observed in image frames that are obtained in a chronologically successive manner only after a set self-timer time is over;
- and
- an image capture start determining unit which determines whether entry of an unwanted subject from outside of an image frame to inside of the image frame is detected from the calculated degree of motions and determines whether to start an image capturing operation based on the determination regarding the unwanted subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.