PHOTOGRAPH INTENTION PREDICTION INCLUDING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPH RECORDING WITH AUTOFOCUS AND RESPECTIVE METHOD

摘要

When a user removes a camera phone (1) from a pocket or other storage location and raises it in a pre-defined motion in front of his face, the pre-defined motion activates the camera (2). When the camera phone decelerates/stabilizes in the user's hand in the correct orientation to take a picture, auto focus (4) occurs and the camera automatically records images/photographs. When the user presses the shutter release (6), a camera application opens on the camera phone display (5) to show the current image and that image is recorded. The previous automatically recorded images also may be available for viewing by the user. If after removing the camera from the storage location, the user does something other than pressing the shutter release, the automatically recorded images will be automatically discarded. When a brief photographic opportunity occurs and the user has little time to react, the photographic moment still can be captured.