Photographic apparatus

• US 20050088546A1
• Filed: 10/26/2004
• Published: 04/28/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Wang, Shouwei
• Granted Patent: US 7,532,235 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/239
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image

Abstract

The photographic apparatus according to the present invention comprises a posture detecting device which detects the posture of a body of the photographic apparatus, a store instructing device which instructs storing of a posture detected by the posture detecting device, a posture storing device for storing the posture detected by the posture detecting device in accordance with an instruction from the store instructing device, a discrepancy extent computing device which compares the posture stored by the posture storing device and the current posture detected by the detecting device, and computes the extent of any discrepancy of the current posture from the posture stored by the posture storing device, and a correction information generating device for generating correction information for correcting the current posture to the posture stored by the posture storing device on the basis of the extent of the discrepancy computed by the discrepancy extent computing device.

Claims

1. A photographic apparatus comprising:

a posture detecting device which detects the posture of a body of the photographic apparatus,

a store instructing device which instructs storing of a posture detected by said posture detecting device,

a posture storing device for storing the posture detected by said posture detecting device in accordance with an instruction from said store instructing device,

a discrepancy extent computing device which compares the posture stored by said posture storing device and the current posture detected by said detecting device, and computes the extent of any discrepancy of the current posture from the posture stored by said posture storing device; and

a correction information generating device for generating correction information for correcting the current posture to the posture stored by said posture storing device on the basis of the extent of the discrepancy computed by said discrepancy extent computing device.

2. The photographic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said correction information generating device causes the correcting direction for the posture of the body of said photographic apparatus to be displayed on a display device on the basis of the extent of any discrepancy computed by said discrepancy extent computing device, and correction information to be generated.

3. The photographic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said photographic apparatus is an electronic camera which takes a picture with an image pickup element and records the picture so taken on a recording medium as picture data, a real-time picture taken by said image pickup element is displayed on said display device, and said correcting direction is superposed over the real-time picture in the display.