Capturing device, image processing method, and program

• US 20110090315A1
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Mitsuru
• Granted Patent: US 8,890,935 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/218 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/289 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/296 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/302 for viewing without the aid of special glasses, i.e. using autostereoscopic displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes

Abstract

A capturing device includes a display section that changes between and displays a three-dimensional (3D) image and a two-dimensional (2D) image, and a controller that performs an image display control for the display section, wherein the controller changes a display mode of an image displayed on the display section, from a 3D image display to a 2D image display, in accordance with preset setting information, at the time of performing a focus control process.

Claims

1. A capturing device comprising:

a display section that changes between and displays a three-dimensional (3D) image and a two-dimensional (2D) image; and

a controller that performs an image display control for the display section,

wherein the controller changes a display mode of an image displayed on the display section, from a 3D image display to a 2D image display, in accordance with preset setting information, at the time of performing a focus control process.

2. The capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the controller changes the display mode of the image displayed on the display section in accordance with the setting information, based on determination that focusing has been performed, at the time of performing the focus control process.

3. The capturing device according to claim 1, wherein the controller changes the display mode of the image displayed on the display section in accordance with the setting information, based on determination that a manual focus control has started at the time of performing the focus control process.

4. The capturing device according to claim 1, further comprising a setting of a 3D image display and a setting of a 2D image display as the setting information, and

wherein the controller changes a display of an image displayed on the display section from the 3D image display to the 2D image display at the time of performing the focus control process, when the setting information is set to the 2D image display.

5. The capturing device according to claim 4, wherein the controller selects an image corresponding to a dominant eye from a left eye image or a right eye image in accordance with dominant eye information included in preset setting information and displays the image, when a 2D image is displayed on the display section.

6. The capturing device according to claim 1, further comprising a setting of a 3D image display, a setting of a 2D image display, and a setting of an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image, and

wherein the controller changes a display of an image displayed on the display section from the 3D image display to the alternating display at the time of performing the focus control process, when the setting information is set to the alternating display.

7. The capturing device according to claim 1, further comprising a view finder which displays a 2D image,

wherein the controller performs a 2D image display of an image corresponding to a dominant eye or an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image, in accordance with the setting information, when an image is displayed on the view finder.

8. The capturing device according to claim 1, further comprising a sensor which detects a position of a face of a user viewing through a view finder,

wherein the controller determines whether a dominant eye of the user is a left eye or a right eye based on detection information of the sensor and registers the determined dominant eye information as the setting information.

9. An image processing method which performs a display control for a display section of a capturing device, wherein the display section of the capturing device changes between and displays a 3D image and a 2D image, the method comprising the steps of:

determining by the controller whether or not focusing has been performed at the time of a focus control processing, or whether or not a manual focus control has started; and

changing a display mode of an image displayed on the display section, from a 3D image display to a 2D image display, in accordance with preset setting information, when the controller has confirmed the focusing or the starting of the manual focus control.

10. A program which executes a display control for a display section of a capturing device, wherein the display section of the capturing device changes between and displays a 3D image and a 2D image, the program executing the steps of:

determining by the controller whether or not focusing has been performed at the time of a focus control processing, or whether or not a manual focus control has started; and

changing a display mode of an image displayed on the display section, from a 3D image display to a 2D image display, in accordance with preset setting information, when the controller has confirmed the focusing or the starting of the manual focus control.