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Samsung patents camera system that auto-picks best lens for video

Samsung describes a method where a phone's camera captures video through multiple lenses simultaneously. A neural network analyzes these frames to select the lens that produces the most aesthetically pleasing composition for each moment.

Why it mattersThis could make smartphone videos look more professional by automatically switching between wide, standard, and zoom lenses to frame the subject better.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device and a controlling method of the electronic device are provided. The controlling method of an electronic device according to the disclosure includes the steps of, based on a first user input for or related to acquiring a live view image through a camera including a plurality of lenses different from one another being received, acquiring a plurality of image frames for each of the plurality of lenses and storing the image frames in a first memory, inputting the plurality of image frames for each lens stored in the first memory into a neural network model, by a predetermined time interval, and acquiring score information including composition preference information of each of the input image frames, selecting at least one lens among the plurality of lenses based on the score information, storing image frames acquired through the selected at least one lens in a second memory during the predetermined time interval, and based on a second user input for initiating recording of the live view image being received, storing an image related to the image frames stored in the second memory in a third memory until a time point when a third user input for ending the recording is received.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: a camera system comprising a plurality of lenses that are different; memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: control the camera system to acquire a plurality of image frames through each of the plurality of lenses, select at least one lens among the plurality of lenses based on an aesthetic of the plurality of image frames, store image frames acquired through the selected at least one lens in the memory; based on that the selected at least one lens in a first section and the selected at least one lens in a second section being different, identify a type of a scene corresponding to image frames before and after a boundary of the first section and the second section, apply an effect corresponding to the identified type of the scene to at least one image frame of the stored image frames before and after the boundary stored in the memory, and acquire an image in which at least some of stored image frames in the first section and the second section are merged and the effect is not applied.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Electronic device and controlling method of electronic device
Patent number
US12764416B2
Application number
18977369
Filed
Dec 11, 2024
Granted
Oct 13, 2026
Inventors
8
Claims
20

Classified under

H04N 23/64 Electricity & electronicsH04N 1/2129 Electricity & electronicsH04N 5/2628 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/45 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/62 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/631 Electricity & electronics
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