US 12,190,576 B2
Electronic device for providing shooting mode based on virtual character and operation method thereof
Wooyong Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Seunghyup Baik, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Chanmin Park, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Hyejin Kang, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Jungeun Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/411,393.
Application 17/411,393 is a continuation of application No. 16/793,341, filed on Feb. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,138,434.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0019526 (KR), filed on Feb. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0383119 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06V 20/20 (2022.01); G06T 13/40 (2011.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 20/20 (2022.01) [G06T 13/40 (2013.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G06V 40/168 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a camera;
a display;
a processor; and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to:
obtain, using the camera, a preview image including an object;
track the object in the obtained preview image;
determine whether or not the object includes a face of a user;
produce an avatar image including an avatar which has features corresponding to the user's face and/or which simulates a motion of the object based on the tracking of the object;
synthesize the avatar image with at least a portion of the object in the preview image;
output, through the display, the preview image such that the avatar image replaces the user's face in the preview image; and
select between providing a facial avatar and providing a body avatar according to whether a first portion or a second portion of a body of the user is a predetermined size relative to the object in the preview image.