Camera Setting Management Across Foreground Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with cameras have limited camera setting options, restricting users from fully utilizing the camera's capabilities, especially when using software applications.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a first software application that displays customizable setting menus for camera functions, allowing users to adjust settings via a user interface, and a second software application that executes these changes in the background to enhance camera functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If camera setting options are limited according to camera hardware, then device complexity is reduced, but camera functionality and adaptability are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal setting management system that works across different camera hardware configurations and software applications. The setting menu system provides a unified interface that adapts to various camera capabilities, allowing the same software framework to support diverse camera functions without requiring separate customization for each device type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the camera setting system into separate modular components: setting menu display functionality, setting value identification, and camera control execution. This segmentation allows each component to be independently developed and optimized, reducing overall system complexity while enabling flexible combination to achieve diverse camera functions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple software applications access camera settings, then camera adaptability is improved, but setting consistency and reliability are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where setting changes made in any software application are detected and communicated back to the setting management system. This ensures that all applications access and modify a consistent set of camera parameters, maintaining reliability while allowing multiple applications to utilize camera functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a setting management intermediary layer that sits between multiple software applications and the camera hardware. This intermediary manages setting requests from different applications, ensures consistency, and coordinates changes, allowing multiple applications to access camera settings reliably without direct conflicts.
3Ease of operation
If camera settings are customized for individual users, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by providing default camera settings that are pre-configured for different user scenarios. When a user first accesses the camera, appropriate default settings are automatically applied based on the detected situation or user profile, eliminating the need for users to manually configure every parameter while still allowing customization when desired.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables self-service functionality where the camera system automatically adjusts settings based on detected conditions or user preferences without requiring complex manual configuration. The system monitors usage patterns and environmental conditions, then autonomously optimizes camera parameters, providing ease of operation while maintaining sophisticated functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a camera, memory including one or more storage media storing instructions and one or more processors including processing circuitry, wherein the instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to in response to an execution of a first software application for setting of the camera, display a user interface of the first software application including setting menus respectively corresponding to settings related to a shot via the camera, identify a user input received with respect to a setting menu from among the setting menus, based on the user input, identify a value for the setting corresponding to the setting menu, and based on executing a second software application in a foreground state, obtain an image by using the camera driven based on the setting adjusted according to the value.