Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jaehun Cho

Donghyun Yeom

Hojin Kim

Chansik Park

Jungeun Lee

Hyungsuk Kim

Changwoo Lee

Yongchul Kim

Hyuntaek Lee

Jeehong Kim

Jungik Seo

Jaewon Choi

Hyunsoo Kim

Dohan Kim

Soohyung Kim

Yongman Lee

Jinmin Bang

Daehyun Yoo

KwanHo Kim

Wonjun Roh

DongJun Jang

Chanyul Park

Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus and method for processing images in an electronic device. The electronic device includes: a memory; an image sensor; an image control circuit operatively connected to the image sensor; and an image signal processor operatively coupled to the image control circuit. The image control circuit can store a plurality of frames received through the image sensor in the memory, transmit the plurality of frames stored in the memory to the image signal processor, and, when the number of frames that have not been transmitted to the image signal processor among the plurality of frames obtained from the image sensor exceeds a designated number, remove the frames that have not been transmitted to the image signal processor from the memory.

Electronic device for processing images and method for operating same

An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a display module, and at least one processor operably connected to the display module, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to obtain an HDR image, determine a size of a first region of the display module, the first region being a region where the HDR image is to be displayed, determine a size of a second region of the display module, the size of the second region corresponding to a maximum size of the HDR image which is capable of being displayed while maintaining an aspect ratio of the HDR image, and set a brightness range of the display module, based on the size of the first region and the size of the second region. Various other embodiments may be provided.

Method for providing image and electronic device for supporting the same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, an AP processing unit, a memory, and a control unit. Each pixel included in the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of photodiodes and a microlens. The control unit provides at least one of a first piece of AF data and a second piece of AF data to the AF processing unit, and the AF processing unit may execute a first phase autofocus (PAF) operation based on the first piece of AF data or execute a second PAF operation based on the second piece of AF data.

Electronic device, and method for performing autofocus by rotating or reordering AF data

An electronic device, including a memory; a display panel; an image sensor disposed at a lower end of the display panel; a processor operatively connected to the image sensor; and a display driver integrated circuit operatively connected to the display panel and the processor, and configured to sense that a first frame is output on the display panel and to transmit a first signal to the processor based on the first frame being output on the display panel, wherein the processor is configured to: generate the first frame having a designated pixel value based on a shoot command being received from a user, control the display panel to output the first frame, and control the image sensor to capture an image based on the first signal being received from the display driver integrated circuit, and store the captured image in the memory.

Electronic device and method for capturing an image according to an output of a display

An electronic device includes: a display panel, a display driving circuit, and at least one processor operatively connected to the display driving circuit. The at least one processor may be configured to: determine a resolution of each of a plurality of applications, and generate a frame image including regions corresponding to execution screens of the plurality of applications and determined resolutions of the plurality of applications, based at least partially on the resolutions of the plurality of applications and/or information on a display region corresponding to the execution screens of the plurality of applications on the display panel, and transmit, to the display driving circuit, the frame image and coordinate information of each of the regions included in the frame image. The display driving circuit up-scales at least a portion, which has resolution lower than resolution of the display panel, of the regions included in the frame image, based on the frame image and the coordinate information of each of the regions, such that the frame image has resolution corresponding to the resolution of the display panel and control the display panel to display the execution screen of each of the plurality of applications, based on the up-scaled frame image.

Electronic device and method for controlling display thereof

An apparatus and method for editing an image including dynamic tone metadata in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display, and at least one processor operatively connected to the display, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to generate a third image to be inserted between a first image and a second image continuous with the first image among a plurality of images belonging to video content, generate dynamic tone metadata of the third image based on dynamic tone metadata of the first image and the second image, and update the video content by adding the third image and the dynamic tone metadata of the third image.

Electronic device for video editing with dynamic tone metadata and operation method thereof

An electronic device comprises a camera; a memory configured to store a plurality of tone mapping information sets, each of the tone mapping information sets comprising image information of an image frame and tone mapping information of the image frame; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: select a tone mapping information set based on user input; acquire a first image frame captured through the camera; obtain a first feature of the first image frame by analyzing the first image frame; identify a second feature of second image frame corresponding to the selected tone mapping information set, based on image information of the second image frame; compare the first feature and the second feature; based on the comparison result, apply tone mapping to the first image frame using tone mapping information of the second image frame; and store image data of the first image frame, in the memory.

Image processing method and electronic device supporting the same

An electronic device for controlling a frame rate and a method therefor are provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor, and a processor. The processor is configured to sequentially obtain a first image, a second image, and a third image through the image sensor at a first time interval, generate a synthesized image by using the first image and the third image, identify a similarity between the second image and the synthesized image, sequentially obtain a fourth image, a fifth image, and a sixth image through the image sensor, at a second time interval long than the first time interval, based on the similarity being equal to or greater than a first threshold value, and sequentially obtain the fourth image, the fifth image, and the sixth image through the image sensor, at the first time interval, based on the similarity being less than a first threshold value.

Electronic device for controlling frame rate of image sensor and method thereof

An apparatus and a method for controlling a display so as to reduce power consumption in an electronic device having a plurality of processors are provided. The apparatus includes a display and a control unit. The display is configured to display information formed by a first image and a second image. The first image corresponds to a partial region of the information, and the second image corresponds to a background region of the information. The control unit includes a first processor and a second processor. The processor may be configured to transmit the first image to the second processor in response to a request for displaying the information on the display. The second processor may be configured to store the second image in a memory and control the display to display the received first image together with the second image.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jaehun Cho