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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-Si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2013.01); H04N 5/23222 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus and an imaging method includes an imaging unit to collect light input through a lens and sensing an image, a storage unit to store an acquisition condition and the sensed image, a control unit to designate a plurality of objects in the stored image, to analyze respective motion of the plurality of objects, and to predict a moment of acquisition at which the motion corresponds to the acquisition condition, and a shutter control unit to control the imaging unit to perform imaging at the predicted moment of acquisition.