Patent ID: 9594292
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G03B,G06F

Claim:
1. An electronic device comprising: a housing; a camera; an acceleration sensor that detects an acceleration applied to the housing; a posture determining unit that determines a posture of the housing based on a value detected by the acceleration sensor; an activation control unit that activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes an upright posture; and a grasping form recognizing unit that recognizes a user's grasping form of the housing, wherein the activation control unit activates the camera when the posture determining unit determines that the posture of the housing becomes the upright posture and the grasping form recognizing unit recognizes that the user's grasping form of the housing is not a grasping form of covering a lens of the camera.