Imaging device, display controller, and display apparatus

• US 7,961,242 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2009
• Issued: 06/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yumiki, Naoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye; Lin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yoder, III; Chriss S
• Application Number:
  US12/621,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20100066870A1
• Time in Patent Office: 573 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.1, 348/231.2, 348/231.3, 348/231.6, 348/239, 348/333.01, 348/333.05, 348/333.11, 348/333.12, 348/649, 348/656, 348/658, 348/659, 345/649, 345/656, 345/658, 345/659
• US Class Current: 348/333.12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/50 Constructional details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/661 Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet

Abstract

An imaging device includes a display unit for displaying an image, an imaging optical system, an imaging unit, a posture detector for detecting a posture of the imaging device in shooting, a recording unit for recording a reduced image of a shot image, and posture information on a posture of the imaging device corresponding to the reduced image, an image extracting unit for extracting reduced images including the same posture information among said reduced images recorded on the recording unit, and an image display controller for displaying the reduced images extracted by the image extracting unit on the display unit, wherein the image display controller reconstructs, on the basis of the posture information, a horizontal and vertical direction of the reduced images extracted by the image extracting unit to the posture of the imaging device in shooting, and displays the reduced image being reconstructed on the display unit. Thereby, that makes it possible to display a comfortable reduced image.

Claims

1. A display apparatus for reading a reduced image of a shot image, and rotation information corresponding to the reduced image recorded on a recording unit to thereby display the reduced image, the display apparatus comprising:

a read unit for reading the reduced image, and the rotation information corresponding to the reduced image recorded on the recording unit;

an image extracting unit for extracting reduced images read by the read unit; and

an image display controller for controlling the displaying of the extracted reduced images based on the rotation information,

wherein, in the case where a direction along a short side of the display apparatus is defined as a first direction and a direction along a long side of the display apparatus is defined as a second direction, the image display controller controls the display apparatus such that;

a dimension in the first direction of a reduced image, whose dimension in the first direction is larger than a dimension in a second direction, is larger than a dimension in the first direction of a reduced image whose dimension in the first direction is smaller than a dimension in the second direction; and

a dimension in the second direction of the reduced image, whose dimension in the first direction is larger than the dimension in the second direction, is different from the dimension in the first direction of the reduced image whose dimension in the first direction is smaller than a dimension in the second direction.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image display controller controls, based on the rotation information, the maximum number of reduced images displayed by the display apparatus.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image display controller rotates, based on the rotation information, the extracted reduced images and causes the rotated reduced images to be displayed.