Automatic digital camera photography mode selection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8970720-B2
Application number	US-84327510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 26, 2010
Priority date	Jul 26, 2010
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A digital camera having a plurality of photography modes, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system for imaging a scene onto the image sensor; an image capture control for initiating an image capture operation; a photography mode user interface for selecting between a plurality of photography modes, the photography modes having associated image capture and image processing settings; a power control for turning the digital camera on or off, wherein when the camera is in an off state and the power control is activated with a first activation pattern the digital camera is turned on and set to operate in a default photography mode and when the power control is activated with a second activation pattern the digital camera is turned on and set to operate in a previously selected photography mode.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of automatically selecting a photography mode comprising:
storing, in a memory, one or more previous digital contexts wherein each previous digital context comprises a corresponding photography mode and a predetermined scene classification category;
sensing a current digital context, the current digital context corresponding to a current sensed scene;
using a semantic scene classification algorithm to select a predetermined scene classific…

Assignees

• Razavi Frank
• Pillman Bruce H
• Parulski Kenneth A
• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Razavi Frank
• Pillman Bruce H
• Parulski Kenneth A

Classifications

• H04N23/631

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/651 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/64

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/667 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/62

  Electricity · mapped topic