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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2010
Applicants:
Pyo-jae Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Young-kwon Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Yong-gu Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23241 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for enabling a mobile terminal to drive a camera with low power. The mobile terminal applies power to an image sensor in response to a camera function execution request, initializes the image sensor, maintains the image sensor in a software standby state in which a streaming output of sensed data is interrupted, when a low power standby mode is set, and displays a null image on a display unit.