Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Myoungwon Kim

Kihuk Lee

Wooyong Lee

Moonsoo Kim

Hyejin Kang

Kangmin Lee

Donghoon Jang

Minsheok Choi

Jaedong Kim

Sungjun Yim

Jongheum Han

An electronic device and method of recognizing biometric data are provided. The electronic device includes a first camera configured to acquire an image through visible light; a second camera configured to acquire an image through infrared rays; a display; a memory; and a processor configured to receive a request associated with biometric authentication for a user, in response to the request, identify context information associated with the electronic device; when context information corresponds to a first condition, provide to the display a first image corresponding to the biometric authentication and acquired by the first camera, and perform the biometric authentication using biometric data acquired from the second camera; and when the context information corresponds to a second condition, provide to the display a second image corresponding to the biometric authentication and acquired by the second camera, and perform the biometric authentication using biometric data acquired from the second camera.

Electronic device and method for authenticating biometric data through plural cameras

An apparatus and method for adjusting compression rate based on the image size analysis in a camera device are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a compression rate determiner which determines a compression rate according to complexity of an image by extracting auto focus filter values of the image acquired from the camera, a processor which processes the image acquired from the camera in a unit of the line, and a still image codec which compresses line images output from the processor at the compression rate.

Image encoding apparatus and method of camera device

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Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Myoungwon Kim