Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jiyoon Park

Byungjun Son

Wooyong Lee

Sungjoo Ahn

Yanggeun Oh

Sungwook Youn

Sungoh Kim

Jungeun Lee

Hyejin Kang

Minsheok Choi

Jaeyun Song

Junho An

Sungchul Park

Junghoon Kim

Seoyoung Lee

Daiwoong Choi

Gyuhee Han

Taehwa Hong

Hyoungjin Yoo

Kihuk Lee

Yongsang Yun

Sungho Lee

Sehoon Kim

Jaehyuk Lee

Wonseok Song

Nari Kim

Mincheol Seo

Junwhon Uhm

Jaegon Kim

Bohee Lee

Yumin Jung

Jaehee Jeon

Yongju Lee

Nari Im

Jonghoon Won

Jonghun Won

Ildo Kim

Jaemyung Lee

Changhoon Kang

Sangjin Lee

Byounggeun Choi

Changgwun Lee

Hyeyun Jung

Hyunjin Kim

Sanghun Lee

Hyunhee Park

Youngmin Kim

Jaeyung Yeo

Dasom Lee

Heejun Lee

Seongmin Je

Junyoung Park

Seungeun Lee

Sungwon Kim

Chanmin Park

Jinho Lim

Daehee Kim

Juwoan Yoo

Daekyu Shin

Yunsik Kim

Tushar Balasaheb Sandhan

Youngjo Kim

Wonsuk Chang

Sungjun Lim

Changsu Han

Taegun Park

Jongbum Choi

Yangsoo Lee

Hansol Choi

Lam Van Nguyen

Wontaeck Jung

Kyungjae Lee

Hyungju Chun

Arang Lee

Donghwan Seo

Kwanghyun Lee

Andrew Joseph Dickerson

Hyeongwook Yang

Byungkwon Kang

Saemee Yim

Hyunjun Yoon

Chanhee Yoon

Seunghwan Jeong

Daehyun Sung

Junghwan Jo

Kwangyong Lim

Seungjun Hyun

Yonggyoo Kim

Sangheum Cho

Jonghwa Yim

Soyeon Heo

Byungpo Choi

Jaemin Joo

Dongo Kim

Suhyung Kim

Insu Yu

Moojung Kim

Mincheol Hwang

Jongpil Park

Jungchan Cho

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera module, a display, a plurality of detectors, and at least one processor, and the at least one processor may be configured to detect at least one first region of interest (ROI) in a first image received through the camera module by using a first detector for first ROI detection among the plurality of detectors, detect at least one second ROI in a second image received through the camera module by using a second detector for second ROI detection among the plurality of detectors when failing in detecting at least one first ROI matching the at least one first ROI detected in the first image in the second image by using the first detector, estimate at least one first ROI based on the at least one second ROI, update the estimated at least one first ROI to at least one first ROI when the at least one first ROI detected in the first image matches the estimated at least one first ROI, and change a position of a preview region including the updated at least one first ROI based on a position of the estimated at least one first ROI matching the at least one first ROI detected in the first image.

Electronic device and method for tracking regions of interest in the electronic device

Disclosed is an electronic device configured to obtain a second image, by cropping a first image obtained through a camera, detect at least one finger object in the second image, the at least one finger object corresponding to at least one finger, determine at least one key column corresponding to the at least one finger object among a plurality of key columns of a virtual keyboard by matching the plurality of key columns of the virtual keyboard to a plurality of regions of the second image, and identifying at least one region corresponding to at least one position of the at least one finger object among the plurality of regions of the second image, determine at least one key row corresponding to the at least one finger object among a plurality of key rows of the virtual keyboard, identify, based on the determined at least one key column and the determined at least one key row, at least one virtual key corresponding to the at least one finger object among a plurality of virtual keys of the virtual keyboard, and identify an input of the identified at least one virtual key, based on detecting a typing movement of the at least one finger object.

Electronic device for obtaining user input through virtual keyboard and method of operating the same

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes obtaining a first image corresponding to a first field-of-view through a first camera, obtaining a second image corresponding to a second field-of-view wider than the first field-of-view through a second camera, determining a third image corresponding to a partial area of the second image based on a range in which the first field-of-view may move through a field-of-view movement means, displaying the first image on the first area of the display, displaying the third image on a second area smaller than the first area of the display, receiving a user input with respect to one point of the second area of the display, controlling, in response to the reception of the user input, the field-of-view movement means so that a subject corresponding to the one point of the second area is located within the first field-of-view, and displaying, on the first area of the display, an image obtained through the first camera and corresponding to a first field-of-view moved according to control of the field-of-view movement means.

Electronic device including a plurality of cameras and operating method thereof

An example camera movement control method includes: activating, by an electronic device, a camera functionally connected to the electronic device; displaying, on the basis of the activation of the camera, an image of an object outside the electronic device on a display functionally connected to the electronic device; confirming the movement of the image of the object; and correcting the image by means of an image stabilizer functionally connected to the electronic device on the basis of the movement. The correcting of the image can include: calculating an image correction angle with respect to the movement; and controlling the image stabilizer based on the image correction angle.

Camera movement control method and device

An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a display; an image sensor; and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the display and the image sensor. The processor may be configured to: display a first indicator at a specified position within a preview screen of the image sensor displayed on the display; identify a target on the preview screen; identify a target region corresponding to the identified target among a plurality of candidate target regions including the identified target on the basis of aesthetic scores assigned to the plurality of candidate target regions; display a second indicator corresponding to the identified target region on the preview screen; and when the second indicator is moved to the specified position, generate a photographic image corresponding to the preview screen at a specified time.

Electronic device for recommending composition and operating method thereof

An electronic device includes a camera, a display, and a processor. The processor displays a user interface including menu items supporting entry into an edit mode for a body part of an emoji displayed on the display. The processor captures a user face image using the camera, upon a user requesting facial expression edit mode from the interface. The processor generates a facial expression motion file from the user face image. The processor captures a user body image using the camera upon the user requesting body motion edit mode. The processor generates a body motion file from the user body image. The processor adjusts sync for combining the generated facial expression motion file and body motion file. The processor generates a customized emoji sticker on which user facial expression and body movement are reflected by combining the sync-adjusted facial expression motion file and body motion file.

Electronic device and method for generating user avatar-based emoji sticker

An electronic apparatus and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes at least one camera, a distance sensor, an illumination sensor, a display, a light-emitting module configured to generate a flash, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: displaying a camera preview image, acquiring a distance between the apparatus and an object depicted in the preview image, acquiring a brightness in the local environment, detecting whether a shadow of the electronic apparatus is depicted in the preview image, based on the acquired distance and the acquired brightness, detecting whether a shadow is disposed within the field-of-view of the camera, and in response to detecting the shadow of, configuring a brightness value for a flash to reduce the shadow.

Photographing method of electronic apparatus and electronic apparatus thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing on which at least a part of an external device operating communication in a frequency band of 20 GHz or higher is mounted, support members comprising a first support member connected to an area of the housing so as to support wearing of the electronic device in an area of the user's head while surrounding at least a part of the horizontal circumference of the user's head, and a second member surrounding at least a part of the vertical circumference of the user's head, and an antenna module disposed in an area of the second support member. The antenna module comprises an antenna layer comprising multiple patch antenna elements, a wireless circuit layer laminated on the lower portion of the antenna layer, and a heat-radiating layer laminated on the lower portion of the wireless circuit layer.

Electronic device comprising antenna module

A method includes recognizing a face in a plurality of preview images. The method also includes setting a first exposure value of a first image such that a first brightness falls within a specified brightness range and the first brightness is of a first area including the face. The method further includes extracting a second brightness of an area excluding the first area. When the difference between the first brightness and the second brightness is greater than or equal to a specified value, the method includes adjusting exposure values of second and third images, which are a plurality of bracketing images having different exposures, as second and third exposure values, respectively. Additionally, the method includes synthesizing at least one of a bracketing image having a first exposure value, a second image, or a third image to generate a high dynamic range (HDR) image. The method includes displaying the HDR image.

Electronic device for adjusting exposure value of image including face

An electronic device may include a touchscreen display, and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to receive a first input to select a plurality of videos generated from at least two difference sources, perform video synchronization so that timelines of the plurality of selected videos coincide, extract segmental clips selected in each section from the respective videos, based on a main subject selected by analyzing the plurality of videos, adjust different segmental clips so that subjects included in the different segmental clips are synchronized based on a segmental clip in a first section, automatically generate a cross-edited video by joining segmental clips of respective sections in which the subjects are synchronized, and display the cross-edited video on the touchscreen display.

Electronic device and method for automatically generating edited video

Disclosed is an electronic device including a camera, a display, a sensor, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to display an avatar corresponding to an external object included in one or more images acquired using the camera through the display, determine at least one characteristic of the avatar based on avatar information stored in the memory, control the avatar displayed through the display based on at least one configuration value of configuration information stored in the memory, determine a rotational angle of the electronic device in a first mode of the electronic device, determine whether the rotational angle in the first mode is within a first threshold rotation range, and reversely rotate at least a portion of an action or a position of the avatar by the rotational angle in the first mode if the rotational angle in the first mode is within the first threshold rotation range.

Electronic device for displaying avatar corresponding to external object according to change in position of external object

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a camera, a memory and at least one processor. The processor implements the method, including: acquiring image data through a camera, partitioning, by at least one processor, the acquired image data into a first region and a second region according to a designated scheme, acquiring a first auto-white-balancing (AWB) parameter of the first region and a second AWB parameter of the second region, and executing AWB on the image data using both the first AWB parameter and the second AWB parameter.

Electronic device and method for generating images by performing auto white balance

The present invention relates to image processing. A method for operating an electronic device may comprise: an operation of obtaining a plurality of images; an operation of storing one of the plurality of images as a first representative image; an operation of generating a corrected image by using at least one remaining image among the plurality of images; and an operation of storing the corrected image as a second representative image for substituting the first representative image.

Method for processing photographed image and electronic device therefor

An operation method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes generating a first bokeh image by blurring a part of an image acquired using at least one of a first camera module or a second camera module, by using a distance value determined based on the first camera module and the second camera module, and identifying whether a designated subject is included in the acquired image by using at least one of the first camera module or the second camera module; and in response to identifying that the designated subject is included, deactivating the second camera module, performing image segmentation on the acquired image by using the first camera module, and generating a second bokeh image by blurring a part of the acquired image, based on a result of the image segmentation.

Electronic device and method for generating an image

An electronic device is provided and includes a camera, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to control the display to display a second image determined based on a posture of the electronic device from a first image obtained using the camera, detect a finger object from the second image, identify a first virtual key corresponding to the finger object from a virtual keyboard based on a position and a degree of bending of the finger object, and identify an input of the first virtual key based on detecting a typing movement of the finger object. Other embodiments may also be possible.

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Jiyoon Park