Image pickup device and image pickup method

• US 10,306,144 B2
• Filed: 08/09/2017
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corporation
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishihara, Takashi, Yamamoto, Kazutaka, Ito, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pasiewicz, Daniel M
• Application Number:
  US15/672,594
• Publication Number:
  US 20170339344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/02 Bodies
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/20 visible in viewfinder
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04897 Special input arrangements or commands for improving display capability
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0626 for control of overall brightness
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3406 Control of illumination source illumination devices structurally associated with liquid crystal cells G02F1/1336
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/51 Housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/651 for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 : Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/73 : by influencing the exposure time

Abstract

An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a touch operation in a first direction, a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction substantially opposite to the third direction. The image pickup device has at least first and second imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. In the first and second imaging modes, a setting is changed by a third touch operation in the third direction and a fourth touch operation in the fourth direction.

Claims

1. An image pickup device comprising:

at least one camera;

a display; and

a touch panel that overlaps the display, and is capable of detecting a touch operation in a first direction and in a second direction, the first direction being substantially opposite to the second direction,

wherein the image pickup device has at least a first imaging mode, a second imaging mode and a third imaging mode,

in the first imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

in the second imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

in the third imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation on the display in the first direction in the first imaging mode,

switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation on the display in the second direction in the second imaging mode,

switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third touch operation on the display in the first direction in the second imaging mode,

wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes effects having a monochrome; and

wherein the effects of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode are different from each other.

2. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the first touch operation, the second touch operation, and the third touch operation is a flick operation.

3. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein, in the first imaging mode, the display displays a processed video image being obtained by the at least one camera.

4. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the first direction and the second direction are different by 160 degrees or more and 200 degrees or less.

5. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the first direction and the second direction are different by 170 degrees or more and 190 degrees or less.

6. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the first direction is a right direction, and the second direction is a left direction.

7. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the first direction is a upward direction, and the second direction is a downward direction.

8. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the display has a rectangular shape, and

wherein the first direction is a direction away from a predetermined side of the rectangular shape.

9. The image pickup device according to claim 1,

wherein the touch panel overlaps substantially an entire surface of the display.

10. The image pickup device according to claim 9,

wherein an area of the display overlapping the touch panel is 90% or more and 100% or less of an area of the display.

11. The image pickup device according to claim 9,

wherein an area of the touch panel overlapping the display is 90% or more and 100% or less of an area of the touch panel.

12. The image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes a normal mode.

13. The image pickup device according to claim 1, wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes an effect mode in which a hue of the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed.

14. The image pickup device according to claim 13, wherein the effect mode in which a hue of the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed is a sepia mode, in which the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed to have a sepia hue.