Camera Widget Storage Location Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience in managing and applying photo effects to photographs taken on portable devices, as they lack the ability to selectively set a storage location for images within camera applications, leading to inefficient photo organization and application of effects.
Innovation Solution
A camera widget is implemented on portable devices that allows users to set a storage location for photographed images, display a preview area, and apply environment settings, enabling users to manage and organize images more effectively by integrating storage location selection and photo effects directly within the widget.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate application is used to manage and organize photographs, then photo management functionality is provided, but user convenience and operation simplicity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges photo management functions (folder selection, effect application) directly into the camera application interface. Users can select storage folders and apply photo effects without leaving the camera app, eliminating the need for separate management applications and improving operational convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera application is enhanced to perform multiple functions: capturing photos, selecting storage locations, organizing images into folders, and applying photo effects. This multi-functional integration allows a single application to replace what previously required multiple separate tools.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the photographed image is automatically stored in a fixed folder, then storage simplicity is improved, but photo organization flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary folder selection before the photo is actually captured and stored. Users can pre-select which folder their photos will be saved to, and this selection is remembered for subsequent shots. This allows flexible organization without requiring post-capture management.
3Productivity
If photo effects are applied after taking photographs using a separate application, then photo processing functionality is provided, but operation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines photo effect application functionality directly within the camera application. Users can select and apply various photo effects (such as black and white, sepia, inversion) immediately after capturing a photo without needing to switch to a separate photo editing application, thereby improving processing efficiency.
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AI summary
A method and an apparatus for taking a photograph by using a widget are provided. The method includes displaying, on a touch screen, a widget including a storage location name corresponding to a storage location where an image photographed in a camera application is stored, a preview area which displays a photo image stored in the storage location, and a photographing button, changing the preview area to a view finder area in response to a first touch detected in the widget, photographing a subject displayed on the view finder area in response to a second touch detected in the photographing button, and storing a photographed image corresponding to the subject in the storage location.