Angle switching method and apparatus for image captured in electronic terminal

1. An angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal, comprising the following steps:

receiving a triggering operation on a specified switching button;

switching an angle on an image captured by a camera of the terminal within a specified angle range to an image area; and

displaying the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at an angle after the switching, comprises:

simulating, by an image processing application, the captured image from a selected angle that is different from an original image capturing angle based on the captured image, a facial images data and a facial image template.

2. The angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving a triggering operation on a specified switching button comprises:

receiving a triggering operation for displaying options; and

receiving a selection from the options, wherein the options comprise at least two options.

3. The angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal according to claim 2 , wherein the options comprise a first option for switching a display angle of a face image captured by the camera.

4. The angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the receiving a selection from the options comprise receiving the first option selected from the options; and

switching the angle on an image captured by a camera of the terminal within a specified angle range according to the image area comprises:

performing facial recognition on the image captured by the camera; and

switching an angle on the captured face image within the first specified angle range.

5. The angle switching method for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 4 , further comprising:

if the facial recognition does not detect a face in the image within a specified number of times when performing facial recognition on the image captured by the camera, returning to perform the step of receiving a triggering operation input on a specified switching button.

6. The angle switching method for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 3 , wherein the options further comprise a second option for switching a display angle of the entire image captured by the camera, and a third option for switching a display angle of an area selected in the image captured by the camera;

the receiving a selection from the options comprises receiving the second option or the third option selected by the user from the options; and

the switching the angle on an image captured by a camera of a current terminal within a specified angle range according to an image area corresponding to the specified switching button comprises: switching the angle on the image captured by the camera of the current terminal within a second specified angle range according to the image area.

7. The angle switching method for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 1 , wherein if the image captured by the camera of the current terminal is captured in a video session form, the displaying the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at an angle after the switching comprises:

displaying, by the current terminal, the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at the angle after the switching, and enabling a video receiving terminal of the video session to display the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at the angle after the switching.

8. An angle switching apparatus for an image captured in an electronic terminal, comprising: a processor and a memory, the memory storing an application program module that can be executed by the processor, when executed by the processor, the application program performs an angle switching method, comprising:

receiving a triggering operation input on a specified switching button;

switching an angle on an image captured by a camera of a current terminal within a specified angle range according to an image area; and

displaying the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at an angle after the switching, comprises:

simulating, by an image processing application, the captured image from a selected angle that is different from an original image capturing angle based on the captured image, a facial images data and a facial image template.

9. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 8 , the angle switching method comprising:

receiving a triggering operation for displaying options; and

receiving a selection from the options, wherein the options comprise at least two options.

10. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the options comprise a first option for switching a display angle of a face image captured by the camera.

11. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 10 , the method comprising:

in response to receiving the first option selected, performing facial recognition on the image captured by the camera; and

switching an angle on a captured face image within the first specified angle range.

12. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 11 , wherein switching the angle further comprises:

determining whether the facial recognition system successfully performs facial recognition on the image captured by the camera within a specified number of times; and

switching the angle on the captured face image within the first specified angle range when the determining unit determines that the facial recognition system successfully performs facial recognition on the image captured by the camera within a specified number of times.

13. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 10 , wherein the options further comprise a second option for switching a display angle of the entire image captured by the camera, and a third option for switching a display angle of an area selected in the image captured by the camera.

14. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 13 , the method comprising:

in response to receiving the second option or the third option selected from the options, switching the angle on the image captured by the camera of the current terminal within a second specified angle range according to the image area corresponding to the specified switching button.

15. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 8 , the method comprising:

if the image captured by the camera of the current terminal is captured in a video session form, enabling a video receiving terminal of the video session to display the image captured by the camera of the current terminal at an angle after switching the angle.

16. The angle switching method for an image captured in an electronic terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic terminal hosts the image processing application with the facial image data and the facial image template, the facial image data is collected from the image captured by the camera, the facial image template is a template of a persons' face shape calculated based on the facial image data.

17. The angle switching apparatus for an image captured in the electronic terminal according to claim 8 , wherein the electronic terminal hosts the image processing application with the facial image data and the facial image template, the facial image data is collected from the image captured by the camera, the facial image template is a template of a persons' face shape calculated based on the facial image data.