Devices and Methods for Capturing and Interacting with Enhanced Digital Images

• Main Authors: ALAN C. DYE, JUSTIN S. TITI, JONATHAN IVE, GRAHAM R. CLARKE, AURELIO GUZMAN, SIMON BOVET, MICHAEL T. JUREWITZ, BRITT S. MIURA, KENNETH L. KOCIENDA, BRENDAN J. LANGOULANT, CHRISTOPHER P. FOSS, IMRAN A. CHAUDHRI, DANIEL E. GOBERA RUBALCAVA, CHARLES A. MEZAK, BETHANY B. CONOLLY, PAVEL PIVONKA, CRAIG M. FEDERIGHI, NICHOLAS V. KING, HENRIQUE D. PENHA, SEBASTIAN J. BAUER, EMILIE KIM, ELLIOTT B. HARRIS, BEHKISH J. MANZARI, DANIEL T. PRESTON, CHRISTOPHER I. WILSON, PAULO M. LOPEZ, GREGORY M. APODACA, NATALIA C. MARIC
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.09.2017
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

An electronic device includes a camera. While in a first media acquisition mode for the camera the device displays a live preview on the display. While displaying the live preview, the device detects activation of a shutter button. In response to detecting activation of the shutter button, the device groups a plurality of images acquired by the camera in temporal proximity to the activation of the shutter button into a sequence of images. The sequence of images includes: a plurality of images acquired by the camera prior to detecting activation of the shutter button; a representative image that represents the first sequence of images and was acquired by the camera after one or more of the other images in the first sequence of images; and a plurality of images acquired by the camera after acquiring the representative image.