Mobile terminal and imaging key control method for selecting an imaging parameter value
AssigneeKYOCERA Corporation
InventorTakashi Maeda
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Abstract
A mobile phone comprises a display, etc. If a camera function is performed, a through image (preview image) based on an imaging parameter value, a shutter key, etc. are displayed on the display. A RAM is registered in advance with imaging parameter value brought into correspondence to a coordinates range. When a predetermined time period elapses after a touch operation is made to the shutter key, an auxiliary key corresponding to the coordinates range is displayed. If a user moves a finger into the coordinates range based on the displaying of the auxiliary key, a current imaging parameter value is changed to a registered imaging parameter value. If the finger is released in such a state, an image imaged based on a changed imaging parameter value.
Claims12
A mobile terminal which has a camera module and in which at least one first imaging parameter value is set prior to imaging, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a display;
- a touch panel provided on the display;
- and
- one or more modules that
- detect a touch operation to the touch panel,
- store one or more ranges for the touch operation, wherein each of the one or more ranges correspond to at least one second imaging parameter value registered in advance,
- display an imaging key on the display, and,
- when a touch operation is performed to the imaging key for a predetermined period of time,
- display one or more representations of the one or more ranges around the imaging key,
- determine where the touch operation is ended,
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at one of the one or more displayed representations of the one or more ranges, change the at least one first imaging parameter value to the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and save an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and,
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at the imaging key while the one or more displayed representations of the one or more ranges are displayed around the imaging key, save an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one first imaging parameter value.
An imaging key control method in a mobile terminal in which at least one first imaging parameter value is set prior to imaging and which has a camera module, a display, a touch panel provided on the display, a detecting module which detects a touch operation to the touch panel, and a storing module which stores a one or more ranges for the touch operation, wherein each of the one or more ranges correspond to at least one second imaging parameter value registered in advance, the method comprising:
- displaying an imaging key on the display;
- and,
- when a touch operation is performed to the imaging key for a predetermined period of time,
- displaying one or more representations of the one or more ranges around the imaging key,
- determining where the touch operation is ended;
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at one of the one or more ranges, changing the at least one first imaging parameter value to the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and saving an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and,
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at the imaging key while the one or more displayed representations of the one or more ranges are displayed around the imaging key, saving an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one first imaging parameter value.
A mobile terminal which has a camera module and in which at least one first imaging parameter value is set prior to imaging, the mobile terminal comprising:
- a display operable to display an imaging key;
- a touch acceptor provided on the display;
- and
- one or more modules that
- detect a touch operation to the touch acceptor;
- store one or more ranges for the touch operation, wherein each of the one or more ranges correspond to at least a second imaging parameter value, and,
- when the touch operation is performed to the imaging key for a predetermined period of time,
- display one or more representations of the one or more ranges around the imaging key,
- determine where the touch operation is ended,
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at one of the one or more displayed representations of the one or more ranges, change the at least one first imaging parameter value to the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and save an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one second imaging parameter value corresponding to the range represented by the one representation, and
- when it is determined that the touch operation is ended at the imaging key while the one or more displayed representations of the one or more ranges are displayed around the imaging key, save an image imaged by the camera module based on the at least one first imaging parameter value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.