Pick-up device

• US 4,905,088 A
• Filed: 04/04/1989
• Issued: 02/27/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tsunekawa, Tokuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lev, Robert
• Application Number:
  US07/333,793
• Time in Patent Office: 329 Days
• Field of Search: 354/374, 354/375, 358/213.13, 358/213.11, 358/213.19, 358/211, 358/209, 358/212, 358/227, 358/54, 358/56, 358/906, 358/909
• US Class Current: 348/296
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 25/53 Control of the integration time

Abstract

A photographic device typically employing a CCD element as a shutter is arranged to have an improved display system. The display system displays the picture number per unit time and the image information storage time by using different display conditions so as to avoid confusion as to what is being displayed. The device enables the photographing picture number per unit time to be taken as a multiple series of 2, such as 60, 30, 15, 8, 4, 2 1 . . . , pictures/second in order to make the numerical series of the photographing picture number common with that for the storage time of the image information so that the image information storage time and the photographing picture number per unit time can be displayed with a common display means.

Claims

1. An image pick-up device comprising:

(a) image pick-up means for converting an optical picture information into an electrical signal; and

(b) picture number designating means for selectively designating a number of picture pick-ups per unit time in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values, whereby the plural number of set values is in the relation satisfying about 2ⁿ, (n;

an integer).

8. An image pick-up device according to claim 1, wherein said picture number designating means is arranged to selectively designate one of at least three set values.

9. An image pick-up device according to claim 1, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4 and 8.

10. An image pick-up device according to claim 1, and further comprising an image pick-up period designating means for selectively designating the image pick-up period of the optical picture information in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values.

11. An image pick-up device according to claim 10, wherein at least three values of the set values of said image pick-up period designating means and the set values of said picture number designating means are the same or reciprocal numbers of each other.

23. An image pick-up device according to claim 1, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4, 8 and 15.

2. An image pick-up device, comprising:

(a) image pick-up means for converting an optical picture information into an electrical signal;

(b) image pick-up period designating means for selectively designating the image pick-up period of the optical picture information in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values;

(c) picture number designating means for selectively designating a number of picture pick-ups per unit time in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values; and

(d) control means for controlling a pick-up period in the image pick-up means in response to an output of said image pick-up period designating means,

whereby the plural number of set values concerning the image pick-up period and that concerning the picture number are both included in a numerical series of about mⁿ (m;

a predetermined common constant value, n;

an integer).

3. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein the set value designated by the image pick-up period time designating means and that designated by the picture number designating means are indicated in a same display device.

4. An image pick-up device according to claim 3, wherein the display device has a scale and means for showing a predetermined position on the scale.

5. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein m=2.

12. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein said picture number designating means is arranged to selectively designate one of at least three set values.

13. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4 and 8.

14. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein at least three values of the set values of said image pick-up period designating means and the set values of said picture number designating means are the same or reciprocal numbers of each other.

24. An image pick-up device according to claim 2, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4, 8 and 15.

6. A picture pick-up device, comprising:

(a) image pick-up means for storing an optical picture information;

(b) image pick-up period designating means for selectively designating an image pick-up period of the optical picture information out of a plural number of set values;

(c) a picture number designating means for selectively designating a number of picture pick-ups per unit time in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values; and

(d) control means for controlling a pick-up period in the image pick-up means in response to an output of said image pick-up period designating means,

whereby the plural number of set values concerning the picture number are involved in the plural number of set values concerning the image pick-up period or the reciprocals thereof.

7. An image pick-up device according to claim 6, wherein the plural number of set values concerning the picture number and that of the image pick-up period are both in the numerical series of mⁿ (m:

a common constant value, n;

an integer).

15. An image pick-up device according to claim 6, wherein said picture number designating means is arranged to selectively designate one of at least three set values.

16. An image pick-up device according to claim 6, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4 and 8.

17. An image pick-up device according to claim 6, wherein at least three values of the set values of said image pick-up period designating means and the set values of said picture number designating means are the same or reciprocal numbers of each other.

25. An image pick-up device according to claim 6, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4, 8 and 15.

18. An image pick-up device comprising:

image pick-up means for converting an optical picture information into an electrical signal;

record means for recording said electrical signal; and

picture number designating means for selectively designating numbers of pictures recorded per unit time out of a plural number of set values, whereby the plural number of set values is in the relation satisfying about 2ⁿ, (n;

an integer).

19. An image pick-up device according to claim 18, wherein said picture number designating means is arranged to selectively designate at least three set values.

20. An image pick-up device according to claim 18, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4 and 8.

21. An image pick-up device according to claim 18, and further comprising image pick-up period designating means for selectively designating the image pick-up period of the optical picture information in the image pick-up means out of a plural number of set values.

22. An image pick-up device according to claim 21, wherein at least three values of the set values of said image pick-up period designating means and the set values of said picture number designating means are equal or reciprocal numbers of each other.

26. An image pick-up device according to claim 18, wherein the set values selectively designated by said picture number designating means include at least 1, 2, 4, 8 and 15.