Patent Document ID: 8718376
Application ID: 13014301
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for enhancing an image in a portable terminal, comprising: an image processor for performing an Image Signal Processing (ISP) for an image received in a preview mode; a Region of Interest (ROI) processor for extracting an ROI from the image received from the image processor, extracting a corresponding ISP method according to a type of image characteristic of the extracted ROI, applying the corresponding ISP method to an image of the extracted ROI and enhancing an image of the extracted ROI, and synthesizing the image of the enhanced ROI with the image received from the image processor; and a controller for controlling the ROI processor to extract the ROI from the image received from the image processor, enhance the image of the extracted ROI when a photographing is selected, synthesize the enhanced image of the ROI with the image received from the image processor, and for outputting the synthesized image.