Image capture method, and related apparatus and system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12563288-B2
Application number	US-202218556338-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2022
Priority date	Apr 19, 2021
Publication date	Feb 24, 2026
Grant date	Feb 24, 2026

Abstract

This application discloses an image capture method. The image capture method relates to a master device and a slave device. In the method, the master device may establish a communication connection with the slave device. After the connection is established, the master device may obtain an image captured by a camera of the slave device, and display the image on a user interface of the master device. In addition, the master device may further receive a control operation of a user for the image captured by the slave device, and in response to the control operation, the master device changes display effect of the image. In this way, the master device can provide a user with multi-angle image capture experience, and facilitate an image capture requirement of the user, thereby meeting diversified image capture requirements of the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An electronic device, comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the memory, the at least one processor configured, upon execution of the instructions, to perform the following steps:
receiving a first image sent by a second device, the first image being obtained by the second device based on a preset first image capture parameter;
displaying the first image on an interface;
receiving a first operation performed on the interface;
receiving, after receiving the first operation on the interface, a second image sent by the second device; and
displaying a third image on the interface in response to the first operation, and stopping displaying the first image, the third image being obtained by the electronic device by processing the second image based on a second image capture parameter indicated by the first operation, or the third image is the second image and the second image is obtained by the second device based on the second image capture parameter indicated by the first operation, and the second image capture parameter is within an image capture capability range of the electronic device, wherein the second image capture parameter comprises one or both of a software image capture parameter or a hardware image capture parameter.

2 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein before the receiving the first operation performed on the interface, the one or more processors further execute the instructions to perform the following:
receiving the first image sent by the second device, wherein the first image is obtained by the second device based on the preset first image capture parameter; and displaying the first image on the interface; displaying the third image on the interface in response to the first operation; and stopping displaying the first image.

3 . The electronic device according to claim 2 , wherein before the receiving the first image sent by the second device, the one or more processors further execute the instructions to perform the following:
sending a first request to the second device, wherein the first request is for triggering the second device to obtain the first image.

4 . The electronic device according to claim 1 wherein the third image is obtained by the electronic device by processing the second image based on the second image capture parameter indicated by the first operation, and the second image is obtained by the second device based on the preset first image capture parameter.

5 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the third image is obtained by the electronic device by processing the second image based on the second image capture parameter indicated by the first operation; and
before the receiving the second image sent by the second device, the one or more processors further execute the instructions to perform the following: sending the second image capture parameter to the second device, wherein the second image is obtained by the second device based on the second image capture parameter.

6 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the second image is obtained by the second device based on the second image capture parameter; and
if the second image capture parameter is outside an image capture capability range of the second device, the second image is obtained by the second device based on a third image capture parameter, wherein the third image capture parameter is within the image capture capability range of the second device and is closest to the second image capture parameter, or the third image capture parameter is a preset third image capture parameter.

7 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the interface further displays a plurality of image capture options, and image capture parameters corresponding to the plurality of image capture options are within the image capture capability range of the electronic device;
the first operation comprises an operation performed on an image capture option; and the second image capture parameter comprises an image capture parameter corresponding to the image capture option on which the first operation is performed.

8 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein before the receiving the first image sent by the second device, the one or more processors further execute the instructions to perform the following:
displaying a fourth image on the interface, wherein the fourth image is obtained by the electronic device; displaying the first image on the interface; and stopping displaying the fourth image.

9 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the application comprises one or more of the following: a video call application, a photographing application, a live streaming application, an image recognition application, or an image translation application.

10 . The electronic device according to claim 9 , wherein:
the application is the video call application; and after the displaying the third image on the interface in response to the first operation, and stopping displaying the first image, the one or more processors further execute the instructions to perform the following: sending the third image to a server corresponding to the video call application, for the server to send the third image to a third device.

11 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the software image capture parameter comprises one or more of: a digital zoom value, a size for image cropping, a color temperature calibration mode of an image, whether to perform image denoising, a beauty or body shaping type, a filter type, a sticker option, or whether to enable selfie mirroring;
wherein the hardware image capture parameter comprises one or more of: a quantity of cameras, a camera type, an optical zoom value, whether to enable optical image stabilization, an aperture size, whether to turn on a flash, whether to turn on a fill light, a shutter time, an ISO photosensitive value, a pixel, or a video frame rate.

12 . The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the second image capture parameter comprises a combination image capture parameter, the combination image capture parameter comprising one or more of: a hybrid zoom range, a night mode, a portrait mode, a time-lapse mode, a slow motion (slo-mo) mode, a panoramic mode, or a high dynamic range (HDR).

13 . An electronic device, comprising:
a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor in communication with the memory, the at least one processor configured, upon execution of the instructions, to perform the following steps:
receiving a second operation;
receiving, in response to the second operation when a communication connection has been established between the electronic device and a second device, a first image sent by the second device, the first image being obtained by the second device based on a preset first image capture parameter;
displaying the first image on an interface of an application, and skipping displaying a fourth image, before the communication connection has been established with the second device, the second operation is for the electronic device to display the fourth image, and the fourth image is obtained by the electronic device;
displaying the third image on the interface in response to the first operation, and stopping displaying the first image;
receiving a first operation performed on the interface;
receiving a second image sent by the second device; and
displaying a third image on the interface in response to the first operation, wherein the third image is obtained by the electronic device b

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Shaojun
• Zhuang Zhishan
• Xiong Zhangliang

Classifications

• G06F2203/04806

  Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• H04N23/632

  for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters · CPC title

• H04M1/72439 Primary

  for image or video messaging · CPC title