Mobile terminal displaying a continuous-photographing button or a moving-image floating button

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10440275-B2
Application number	US-201715717181-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2017
Priority date	Apr 17, 2017
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

A mobile terminal includes a camera configured to acquire a preview image, a display configured to display the acquired preview image, an artificial intelligence unit configured to sense photographing state information of the preview image, to recognize a direction of a user's hand gripping the mobile terminal according to the sensed photographing state information, and to display a floating button on the display at a position corresponding to the recognized direction of the user's hand, and a controller configured to perform a function corresponding to the floating button selected according to a request for selecting the floating button. The artificial intelligence unit may change attributes of the floating button according to sensing of additional photographing state information after displaying the floating button.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal comprising:
a camera configured to acquire a preview image;
a display configured to display the acquired preview image; and
a controller configured to:
sense photographing state information of the preview image,
recognize a direction of a user's hand gripping the mobile terminal according to the sensed photographing state information,
display, on the display, a floating button at a position corresponding to the recognized direction of the user's hand,
perform a function corresponding to the floating button selected according to a request for selecting the floating button,
change an attribute of the floating button according to a sensing of additional photographing state information after displaying the floating button, and
display one or more of a continuous-photographing floating button for continuous photographing or a moving-image floating button for filming a moving image at positions adjacent to the floating button, if an amount of movement of a subject included in the preview image is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount and a number of times of photographing the subject is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:
recognize that a selfie is being taken through the preview image,
recognize the direction of the user's hand gripping the mobile terminal using an image of a user's hand included in the preview image, and
automatically display a photographing floating button at a position corresponding to the recognized direction of the user's hand.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured to magnify the floating button if a guide indicates that a user image included in the preview image has been focused on is displayed.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:
recognize that a selfie of a plurality of users is being taken using the preview image,
recognize the direction of the user's hand gripping the mobile terminal using an image of a user's hand included in the preview image,
display a first photographing floating button at a position corresponding to the recognized user's hand, and
display a second photographing floating button at an opposite side of the display position of the first photographing floating button.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:
display a mini preview image corresponding to an optimal magnification of the preview image adjacent to the floating button, if a zoom guide bar for magnifying or reducing the preview image is displayed, and
take the preview image according to the optimal magnification according to a request for selecting the mini preview image.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to display a mini preview image, to which a changed photographing attribute value of the camera is applied, at a position adjacent to the floating button, if a brightness of the preview image is equal to or less than predetermined brightness.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a proximity sensor configured to sense proximity sensing information indicating a proximity of the user's hand; and
a gyroscope sensor configured to sense sensing information of a layout mode of the mobile terminal,
wherein the controller recognizes the direction of the user's hand gripping the mobile terminal using the sensing information of the proximity sensor and the gyroscope sensor.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the floating button is a photographing floating button for taking the preview image, and
wherein the controller acquires an image corresponding to the preview image according to selection of the photographing floating button and then changes the photographing floating button to a social network service floating button based on a past learning result.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8 , wherein attributes of the photographing floating button include one or more of a size, color and shape of the photographing floating button.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the controller is configured to:
magnify the photographing floating button if a subject included in the preview image is focused on,
learn a point where the magnified photographing floating button is selected, and
display a position of the photographing floating button at the learned position based on a learned result.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Sooyoung
• Kang Shinnyue

Classifications

• H04N23/62 Primary

  Control of parameters via user interfaces · CPC title

• H04N23/667

  Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes · CPC title

• H04N23/63 Primary

  by using electronic viewfinders · CPC title

• H04N23/69

  Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming · CPC title

• H04M2250/52

  including functional features of a camera · CPC title