Image pickup apparatus, solid-state imaging device, and image generating method

• US 8,005,320 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2009
• Issued: 08/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kitao, Ichiro, Maeda, Kenji, Nakayama, Masaaki, Fusa, Shinobu
• Primary Examiner(s): Alavi; Amir
• Application Number:
  US12/633,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20100085464A1
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• Field of Search: 382312-314, 382/188, 382/282, 345/156, 345/169, 345/179, 345/419, 345/660, 345/698, 348/207.99, 348/208, 348/222.1, 348/294, 348/302, 348/333.01, 348/333.05, 348/333.08, 348/333.11, 348/335, 348/362, 348/445, 348/556, 348/E5.022, 348/E5.024
• US Class Current: 382/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/667 Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes

Abstract

In an image pickup apparatus of the present invention, a CCD 11 in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array, thereof the number of effective horizontal pixels is H and the number of effective vertical pixels is V; a aspect switching operator 18 that sets one of a plurality of aspect modes including a first aspect mode and a second aspect mode; an image processor 141 that generates first image data for recording in the first aspect mode, and generates second image data for recording in the second aspect mode, wherein the first image data for recording is generated using image data that is generated with pixels being H1 horizontal pixels by V1 vertical pixels included in the pixels on the CCD 11 or image data that is obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing, the second image data for recording is generated using image data that is generated with pixels being H2 horizontal pixels by V2 vertical pixels included in the pixels on the solid-state imaging device or image data that is obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing, and the first image data for recording and the second image data for recording satisfy the following relationships: H2<H1≦H, and V1<V2≦V. Thus, it is possible to make the sizes or qualities of sets of image data for recording close to each other even if they have different aspect modes.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a display portion that includes a displayable region in which the number of effective horizontal pixels is PH and the number of effective vertical pixels is PV and that is capable of displaying an image resulting from image data or an image resulting from image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing; and

a display controller that generates first image data for display when displaying an image having a first aspect ratio on the display portion, and that generates second image data for display when displaying an image having a second aspect ratio on the display portion;

the display controller generates the first image data for display by processing said image data so that the image resulting from the image data or the image resulting from the image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing is displayable on a region being PH1 horizontal pixels by PV1 vertical pixels included in the displayable region of the display portion;

the display controller generates the second image data for display by processing said image data so that the image resulting from the image data or the image resulting from the image data obtained by subjecting said image data to predetermined processing is displayable on a region being PH2 horizontal pixels by PV2 vertical pixels included in the displayable region of the display portion; and

the displayable region, the first image data for display, and the second image data for display satisfy the following relationships;

PH2<

PH1<

PH, and

PV1<

PV2<

PV.

2. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein a diagonal length Pφ

1 of the region being PH1 horizontal pixels by PV1 vertical pixels and a diagonal length Pφ

2 of the region being PH2 horizontal pixels by PV2 vertical pixels satisfy the following relationship;

Pφ

1≈

Pφ

2.

3. The display apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first image data for display and the second image data for display satisfy the following relationships:

PH1/PV1≈

16/9, and

PH2/PV2≈

4/3.

4. The display apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the first image data for display and the second image data for display satisfy the following relationships:

PH1/PV1≈

16/9, and

PH2/PV2≈

4/3.