Patent ID: 7929853

Claim:
A method of taking pictures on a mobile communication terminal having a camera module, comprising the steps of: generating a current frame by photographing an object; determining whether blurring has occurred in the current frame; if no blurring has occurred in the current frame, measuring the amount of motion of the current frame relative to a pre-stored previous frame by comparing the current frame with the pre-stored previous frame, and determining whether the measured amount of motion is larger than a pre-stored reference amount of motion; and if the measured amount of motion is larger than the reference amount of motion, storing the current frame as a photo file, wherein determining whether blurring has occurred in the current frame comprises the steps of: generating a sample image of the current frame; computing a first edge value of the sample image; computing a difference between the first edge value and a second edge value pre-stored for the previous frame, and determining whether the difference value is less than a pre-stored reference edge value; and if the difference value is less than the reference value, determining that no blurring has occurred in the current frame.