IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

• US 20170134716A1
• Filed: 11/01/2016
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Naito, Go
• Granted Patent: US 10,742,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 30/00 Apparatus for additive manufacturing; Details thereof or accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 50/00 Data acquisition or data processing for additive manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 50/02 for controlling or regulating additive manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/225 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/232 using fly-eye lenses, e.g. arrangements of circular lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/296 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/0081 Depth or disparity estimation from stereoscopic image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensing device, a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a display control unit. The first acquisition unit acquires an image acquired by using the image sensing device and three-dimensional information regarding a subject in the image. The three-dimensional information includes depth information regarding the image. The second acquisition unit acquires a shaping resolution indicating a resolution used by a shaping device to shape an object in a three-dimensional shape of the subject. The display control unit displays, based on the shaping resolution and the three-dimensional information regarding the subject, a relationship between a size of the subject and magnitude of the shaping resolution.

Claims

1. An image capturing apparatus comprising:

an image sensing device;

one or more processors; and

a memory storing instructions which, when the instructions are executed by the processor, cause an image processing apparatus to function as

a first acquisition unit that acquires an image acquired by using the image sensing device and three-dimensional information regarding a subject in the image, the three-dimensional information including depth information regarding the image,

a second acquisition unit that acquires a shaping resolution indicating a resolution used by a shaping device to shape an object in a three-dimensional shape of the subject, and

a display control unit that displays, based on the shaping resolution and the three-dimensional information regarding the subject, a relationship between a size of the subject and magnitude of the shaping resolution.

2. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays an index indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution to allow comparison with the size of the subject.

3. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit displays a portion of the subject and the index indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution to allow comparison with a size of the portion of the subject.

4. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit displays, in a region for at least a portion of the subject, information indicating the three-dimensional shape of the subject based on the three-dimensional information regarding the subject and displays the index indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution to allow comparison with a size of the at least portion of the subject.

5. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the display control unit displays the index indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution in consideration of a shaping magnification indicating a size of the subject that is expected in shaping performed by the shaping device relative to an actual size of the subject.

6. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 5,

wherein the shaping magnification is determined based on the actual size of the subject and a maximum size usable for the shaping performed by the shaping device.

7. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the index indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution includes divisions indicating the magnitude of the shaping resolution.

8. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the shaping resolution is determined based on a positional resolution of a shaping head that discharges a material of the object to be shaped by the shaping device and on a diameter of a nozzle through which the shaping head discharges the material of the object.

9. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second acquisition unit acquires the shaping resolution of the shaping device selected by a user.

10. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

a communication unit that communicates with the shaping device,

wherein the second acquisition unit acquires, through the communication unit, the shaping resolution of the shaping device with which the communication unit communicates.

11. The image capturing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image sensing device has a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion areas, and

wherein the three-dimensional information includes the image acquired based on parallax images and depth information regarding the image acquired based on the parallax images, the parallax images being acquired at a single time when exposure to the image sensing device is performed.

12. An image capturing apparatus control method for controlling an image capturing apparatus including an image sensing device, the method comprising:

first acquiring in which an image acquired by using the image sensing device and three-dimensional information regarding a subject in the image are acquired, the three-dimensional information including depth information regarding the image,

second acquiring in which a shaping resolution indicating a resolution used by a shaping device to shape an object in a three-dimensional shape of the subject is acquired, and

display controlling in which a relationship between a size of the subject and magnitude of the shaping resolution is displayed based on the shaping resolution and the three-dimensional information regarding the subject.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute an image capturing apparatus control method, the method comprising:

first acquiring in which an image acquired by using the image sensing device and three-dimensional information regarding a subject in the image are acquired, the three-dimensional information including depth information regarding the image,

second acquiring in which a shaping resolution indicating a resolution used by a shaping device to shape an object in a three-dimensional shape of the subject is acquired, and

display controlling in which a relationship between a size of the subject and magnitude of the shaping resolution is displayed based on the shaping resolution and the three-dimensional information regarding the subject.