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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2012
Won-seok Song, Seoul, KR;
Won-seok Song, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A digital photographing apparatus includes: an imaging device that generates an image signal by capturing image light; a storage unit that stores a template including a background area and a composite area that indicates at least a part of an image according to the image signal; an image changing unit that changes orientations of the template and the image; an image composing unit that composes the image and the template of which orientations are changed; and a display unit that displays the composed image, wherein the image changing unit determines orientations to be changed of the template and the image according to a rotation amount of the imaging device with respect to an optical axis of the image light and an orientation in which an imaging surface of the imaging device faces. Accordingly, a user may naturally perform a self-photography function using a template.