IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20140267809A1
• Filed: 03/10/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsubaki, Hidetoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,088,718 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/208.6
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/683 performed by a processor, e.g. controlling the readout of an image memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/687 by shifting the lens or sensor position

Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes a first image shake correcting unit for correcting image shake and moves a correction lens in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis using detection information obtained by an attitude detection sensor. In a second image shake correcting unit, a translational motion detecting unit acquires information about an image captured by an imaging element from a pre-processing unit so as to detect the motion of the image in the translational direction. An in-plane rotational motion detecting unit detects the motion of the image in the rotational direction about the optical axis. A geometric deforming unit acquires detection information from the translational motion detecting unit and the in-plane rotational motion detecting unit so as to correct the image shake of the corrected image, which occurs when the image is subject to rotational correction based on the detection information obtained from the in-plane rotational motion detecting unit.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging unit configured to capture an object via an optical system; and

an image shake correcting unit configured to correct image shake of an image captured by the imaging unit,

wherein the image shake correcting unit comprises;

a first image shake correcting unit configured to optically correct the image shake of the image by a motion of an optical member; and

a second image shake correcting unit configured to perform image shake correction by processing the image captured by the imaging unit, and

wherein the second image shake correcting unit comprises;

a first detecting unit configured to detect a motion of the image in a translational direction in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical system as a translational motion amount from the image optically corrected by the first image shake correcting unit;

a second detecting unit configured to detect a motion of the image in a rotational direction about the optical axis of the optical system as a rotational motion amount; and

a geometric deforming unit configured to acquire the translational motion amount and the rotational motion amount, perform correction by rotating the captured image in accordance with the rotational motion amount with respect to the translational motion amount, and calculate a tangential directional component of the motion of the image in the translational direction generated by the correction so as to correct the motion of the image by geometric deformation processing.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first detecting unit detects the translational motion amount to calculate a first integrated amount, the second detecting unit detects the rotational motion amount to calculate a second integrated amount, and the geometric deforming unit acquires the first integrated amount and the second integrated amount, performs correction by rotating the image with respect to the first integrated amount in accordance with the second integrated amount, calculates a difference between an integrated amount after correction and the first integrated amount prior to correction, and calculates a tangential directional component of the motion of the image in the translational direction so as to correct the motion of the image generated by the correction.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the second detecting unit detects an attitude of the imaging apparatus to calculate the rotational motion amount.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

an image processing unit configured to process the image captured by the imaging unit,

wherein the second detecting unit calculates the rotational motion amount from image information acquired from the image processing unit.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first detecting unit calculates a motion vector of an image from the image information acquired from the image processing unit.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the first detecting unit acquires information about a first image and information about a second image which is later in time than the first image from the image processing unit, and calculate information in which a point of interest in the first image is set to a start point and the position of a point corresponding to the point of interest in the second image is set to an end point so as to calculate the translational motion amount.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the first image shake correcting unit performs integration processing for passing through a frequency component which is equal to or less than a threshold value relating to a motion of a moving image, and the first detecting unit acquires information about the moving image optically corrected by the first image shake correcting unit from the image processing unit so as to calculate a motion amount of the moving image in a translational direction.

8. A control method to be executed by an imaging apparatus that comprises an imaging unit configured to capture an object via an optical system and image shake correcting unit configured to correct image shake of an image captured by the imaging unit and performs first image shake correction for optically correcting the image shake of the image by a motion of an optical member and second image shake correction for correcting image shake by processing the image captured by the imaging unit, wherein the second image shake correction comprises:

detecting a motion of the image in a translational direction in a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical system as a translational motion amount from the image optically corrected by the first image shake correction;

detecting a motion of the image in a rotational direction about the optical axis of the optical system as a rotational motion amount; and

acquiring the translational motion amount and the rotational motion amount, performing correction by rotating the captured image in accordance with the rotational motion amount with respect to the translational motion amount, and calculating a tangential directional component of the motion of the image in the translational direction generated by the correction so as to correct the motion of the image by geometric deformation processing.