Patent ID: 7349020

Claim:
A system, comprising: a plurality of image composition templates, each of the image composition templates associated with at least one of a plurality of preview image natures, at least one image composition template corresponding to a predefined subject matter; a photosensor configured to sense an image; a display configured to display a preview image corresponding to the sensed image; and a processor configured to perform an analysis of at least one characteristic of the preview image; wherein the processor is configured to determine a nature of the preview image based on an analysis of the at least one characteristic of the preview image through employment of a scene analysis algorithm to identify coarse attributes of the preview image; wherein the processor is configured to employ the scene analysis algorithm to select the image composition template based upon the nature of the preview image in which the processor divides the preview image into a coarse grid and compares the coarse grid against a number of pre-stored grid patterns to determine a best match with one of the pre-stored grid patterns associated with a corresponding one of the image composition templates.