IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD

• US 20120300069A1
• Filed: 08/06/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SAKO, Yoichiro, Tsuruta, Masaaki, Ito, Taiji, Asukai, Masamichi
• Granted Patent: US 9,179,057 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• 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

Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including imaging means configured to photograph an image of a scene that is in a direction in which a user sees, outside world information acquisition means configured to acquire outside world information, and control means configured to control an operation of the imaging means based on the outside world information acquired by the outside world information acquisition means.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:

imaging means configured to photograph an image of a scene that is in a direction in which a user sees;

outside world information acquisition means configured to acquire outside world information; and

control means configured to control an operation of said imaging means based on the outside world information acquired by said outside world information acquisition means.