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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Cheol-Ho Cheong, Seoul, KR;
Dong-Hoon Kim, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04M 1/72522 (2013.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); H04M 2250/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for operating a camera function in a portable terminal are provided. State information representing at least one of a direction and a rotation state of the portable terminal is obtained, and at least one of a sequence of reading an image from a camera sensor and an appropriate user interface is determined depending on the state information. Thus, the camera function is performed depending on the determined sequence or user interface.