Camera Image Sequence Capture Around the Shutter Moment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices struggle to capture and interact with moments beyond still images, often requiring significant editing to remove uninteresting moments in videos, and lack intuitive interfaces for grouping and navigating sequences of images.
Innovation Solution
Electronic devices are equipped with methods and interfaces that group a sequence of images around a representative image, allowing users to navigate and interact with these sequences through touch-sensitive inputs, modify, and share them intuitively, with features like scene recognition and dynamic image handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a still image is captured by pressing a shutter button, then the capture process is simple and quick, but details of the moment surrounding that instant are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual images captured in rapid succession into a single composite image that preserves details from different moments. The system merges still images with video frames around the shutter press time to create a comprehensive representation of the moment, maintaining both operational simplicity and information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary capture of multiple images and video frames before and around the actual shutter press moment. By pre-capturing a sequence of images at high frame rate, the system ensures that detailed moment information is already recorded before the user completes the capture action, eliminating the need for post-capture editing.
2Loss of information
If video is recorded to capture extended periods of time, then more moment details are preserved, but significant editing is required to remove uninteresting moments
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the relevant portion of the captured image sequence by automatically identifying the moment of interest around the shutter press time. It takes out and presents only the meaningful frames that contain the captured moment, eliminating the need for manual editing to remove uninteresting portions of the video.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs automatic curation and selection of meaningful moments through scene recognition and temporal analysis algorithms. The captured image sequence self-organizes around the shutter press time, with the system automatically determining which frames represent the interesting moment, eliminating the need for user intervention in the editing process.
3Ease of operation
If sequences of images are grouped around a representative image, then navigation and interaction become more intuitive, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single representative image thumbnail to serve multiple functions: it represents the entire captured sequence, indicates the moment of interest, and provides navigation entry point. This universal element simplifies the user interface while the underlying system handles the complexity of sequence management, scene recognition, and temporal relationships.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes a camera. While in a first media acquisition mode for the camera the device displays a live preview on the display. While displaying the live preview, the device detects activation of a shutter button. In response to detecting activation of the shutter button, the device groups a plurality of images acquired by the camera in temporal proximity to the activation of the shutter button into a sequence of images. The sequence of images includes: a plurality of images acquired by the camera prior to detecting activation of the shutter button; a representative image that represents the first sequence of images and was acquired by the camera after one or more of the other images in the first sequence of images; and a plurality of images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image.