Dual-Camera Capture for Single-Input Multi-Content Imaging

Solution Overview

Problem

Users of electronic devices face inconvenience in acquiring various types of image content, such as still images and moving images, requiring multiple inputs and often unable to capture both simultaneously.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with a first and a second camera, along with a processor and memory, can acquire multiple images through each camera and generate various image contents based on these images, outputting them on different display regions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a single camera is used to capture image content, then the device structure is simple, but the user must perform multiple inputs to acquire different types of image content (still images or moving images)

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser input convenienceVSAvoidcamera system structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions (capturing still images, moving images, and multiple types of image content simultaneously) through a single unified structure. The processor automatically determines and executes different capture modes based on a single user input, making the camera system universal and multi-functional without requiring separate input operations for each image type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the functionality of capturing different image types (still images, moving images, and other image contents) into a single capture operation. By combining multiple capture capabilities into one unified camera system that responds to a single user input, the design eliminates the need for separate input operations while integrating diverse image capture functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple cameras are added to capture various image contents simultaneously, then the image content diversity is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage content type diversityVSAvoidcamera system structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The camera system is designed to perform multiple functions (capturing still images, moving images, and multiple types of image content simultaneously) through a single unified structure. The processor automatically determines and executes different capture modes based on a single user input, making the camera system universal and multi-functional without requiring separate input operations for each image type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the functionality of capturing different image types (still images, moving images, and other image contents) into a single capture operation. By combining multiple capture capabilities into one unified camera system that responds to a single user input, the design eliminates the need for separate input operations while integrating diverse image capture functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the camera captures multiple types of image content, then the image content diversity is improved, but the processing time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage content type diversityVSAvoidimage processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring multiple capture functions and processing pipelines before the user input is given. When the user provides a single input, the processor has already prepared the necessary processing routes for different image types, enabling simultaneous capture and processing of multiple image contents without sequential delays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The camera system maintains continuous useful action by simultaneously capturing and processing multiple types of image content in parallel rather than sequentially. The processor continuously handles different image types (still images, moving images, and other image contents) at the same time, eliminating idle time and maintaining uninterrupted processing flow.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12506951B2Electronic device including camera and method of operating the same

Publication Date: 2025.12.23 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A device and method are provided for providing a function related to a camera in an electronic device. A method includes acquiring, via a first camera of the electronic device, a plurality of first images; acquiring, via a second camera of the electronic device, one or more second images; generating a plurality of image contents based on at least one of the plurality of first images or the one or more second images; and outputting the plurality of image contents at respective regions of a display of the electronic device.