Patent ID: 8723988

Claim:
A computer program product for operating an electronic device including a camera device and a touch sensitive display device, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied in the medium and comprising: computer readable program code that is configured to control magnification of a digital image from the camera device by controlling an amount of optical zoom by the camera device to generate a magnified digital image that is displayed on the display device in response to a distance only between starting positions of at least two touch points detected relative to a surface of the display device, wherein the starting positions of the at least two detected touch points indicate corner locations that frame a portion of the digital image that is to be magnified; computer readable program code that is configured to refrain from interpreting a plurality of touch points that do not define at least a threshold diameter as being a magnification command; and computer readable program code that is configured to initiate capture of the magnified digital image in response to cessation of detection of at least one of the two touch points.