Photographing Control Apparatus Orientation Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handheld devices face challenges in achieving both stability and operational convenience during photography, particularly when transitioning between portrait and landscape modes, as existing technologies do not effectively separate the orientation of the device from the imaging module, affecting the photographing effect.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that determine the first orientation of a photographing device and a second orientation corresponding to a scenario mode, using a benchmark orientation as a reference, to adjust the imaging mode accordingly, ensuring stability and convenience by adjusting the imaging area or orientation of the imaging module.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the device is held horizontally for landscape photography, then the photographing effect is improved, but the operational convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates the orientation management into two independent parts: device orientation (how the user holds the device) and imaging module orientation (how the camera captures images). This segmentation allows the device to be held in a convenient orientation while the imaging module automatically adjusts to achieve the desired landscape or portrait photographing effect, resolving the contradiction between operational convenience and photographing effect.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging module's orientation is made dynamic and adjustable based on the determined scenario mode. When landscape mode is detected, the imaging module automatically rotates or adjusts its capture orientation to match, allowing the device itself to remain static in the user's hand while the imaging function adapts dynamically to achieve the desired photographing effect.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the device is held vertically for one-hand gripping, then the gripping stability is improved, but the photographing effect deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the orientation control into device orientation and imaging module orientation, the patent allows the device to be held vertically for stable one-hand gripping while the imaging module independently adjusts to achieve landscape or portrait photographing effects, thus maintaining both gripping stability and photographing quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging module acts as an intermediary between the device orientation and the final image capture. It mediates by adjusting its own orientation or the captured image orientation based on the scenario mode, allowing the device to remain in a stable vertical grip position while still achieving the desired landscape or portrait photographing effect.
3Manufacturing precision
If the device orientation is fixed to match the scenario mode, then the photographing effect is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the orientation management function, assigning device orientation control to the user and imaging module orientation control to the system. This segmentation avoids the complexity of making the entire device reconfigurable, while still achieving the desired photographing effect through selective adjustment of the imaging module's orientation or captured image orientation.
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AI summary
Photographing control methods, apparatuses, and devices are described. A method comprises: determining a first orientation of a photographing device and a second orientation corresponding to a scenario mode; and determining, in response to that the first orientation is different from the second orientation, an imaging mode of the photographing device according to the second orientation. In this regard, an appropriate imaging mode is determined according to a second orientation when a first orientation of a photographing device is different from the second orientation corresponding to a scenario mode, to separate orientating of the photographing device from imaging of an imaging module, and therefore a photographing effect is not affected while consideration is given to both device gripping stability and operational convenience.