Camera and display control method of the same

• US 8,471,944 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Nonaka, Osamu, Tani, Akira, Hara, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): OSINSKI, MICHAEL S
• Application Number:
  US12/859,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20110043651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,040 Days
• Field of Search: 348/207.99, 348/218.1, 348/220.1, 348/222.1, 34823199-2403, 348/239, 34833301-33313
• US Class Current: 348/333.05
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3251 where the modified version of the image is relating to a person or face
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• 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

A camera according to the present invention comprises: an imaging section converting an object image into image data; a storage section storing still image data of a still image obtained by the imaging section, thumbnail image data of the still image, and moving image data of a moving image which has been photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image; a display section performing display of one or more thumbnail views according to the thumbnail image data; and a display control section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated in the thumbnail view display, performing display of the still image on the display section according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view stored in the storage section.

Claims

1. A camera, comprising:

an imaging section converting an object image into image data and outputting the image data;

a storage section storing still image data of a still image obtained by the imaging section, thumbnail image data of the still image, and moving image data of a moving image which has been photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image such that the still image data is not included within the moving image data;

a display section performing display of one or more thumbnail views according to the thumbnail image data stored in the storage section; and

a display control section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated in the thumbnail view display in order to perform enlarged display of the still image, automatically performing display of the still image on the display section according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view stored in the storage section.

2. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section performs reproduction and display for the display of the moving image while enlarging the moving image.

3. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section performs the display of the moving image on the display section according to the moving image data when returning to the thumbnail view display after having performed the display of the still image.

4. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section eliminates an image having unstable composition from the moving image for the display of the moving image.

5. The camera according to claim 1, wherein

the display control section displays the moving image in an order reverse to a photographing order for the display of the moving image.

6. The camera according to claim 1, further comprising

a parameter control section performing processing which provides a parameter change in the photographing of the moving image.

7. The camera according-to claim 1, still further comprising

a trimming section trimming the moving image data to cut out a face part in the photographing of the moving image after the photographing of the still image.

8. A display control method of a camera, comprising the steps of:

obtaining image data from an object image;

storing still image data obtained for a still image and moving image data of a moving image photographed at timing at least either before or after photographing of the still image such that the still image data is not included within the moving image data;

displaying a thumbnail view on a display section according to the still image data; and

automatically performing display of the still image on the display section, when one of the thumbnail views is designated on a display screen of the thumbnail view in order to perform enlarged display of the still image, according to the still image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view after having performed display of the moving image according to the moving image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail view.

9. A display control method of a camera, the method comprising:

obtaining image data from an object image;

storing both (1) still image data obtained for a still image and (2) moving image data of a moving image captured either (A) during a predetermined time period just before photographing of the still image, or (B) during a predetermined time period just after photographing of the still image;

displaying a thumbnail image on a camera display according to the still image data;

receiving a user selection of the displayed thumbnail image; and

automatically displaying, responsive to the received user selection of the displayed thumbnail image, (1) the moving image according to the moving image data, wherein a size of the displayed moving image increases with time, and (2) the still image according to the still image data, after completion of the display of the moving image.

10. The display control method of claim 9 wherein the act of storing stores moving image data of a moving image captured during a predetermined time period just before photographing of the still image.

11. The display control method of claim 9 wherein the act of storing stores moving image data of a moving image captured during a predetermined time period just after photographing of the still image, and

wherein the act of automatically displaying the moving image according to the moving image data displays the moving image in a reverse order of the moving image data.