Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

• US 8,854,500 B2
• Filed: 03/01/2011
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ishida, Minoru
• Primary Examiner(s): FOSSELMAN, JOEL W
• Application Number:
  US12/929,984
• Publication Number:
  US 20110234852A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• Field of Search: 348/231.99, 348/240.2, 348/240.99
• US Class Current: 348/231.99
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/00 Cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/95 Computational photography systems, e.g. light-field imaging systems

Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes: an image generation section that generates at least one of a first captured image having a predetermined size and a second captured image having an aspect ratio different from that of the first captured image; a recording control section that, when an instruction operation to record the generated captured image is received, records the generated captured image based on the instruction operation; and a display control section that, when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on a display section is the second captured image, displays the second captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the second captured image are displayed on the display section in a correlated manner.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an image generation section that generates at least one of a first captured image having a predetermined size and a second captured image having an aspect ratio different from that of the first captured image;

a recording control section that, when an instruction operation to record the generated captured image is received, records the generated captured image based on the instruction operation; and

a display control section that, when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on a display section is the second captured image, displays the second captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the second captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein the display control section displays the captured image, which is recorded by a recording process after the recording control section finishes an operation of recording captured images, on the display section as the captured image to be displayed,

wherein when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image, and a predetermined operation is received after the first captured image is displayed on the display section, the display control section displays the first captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the first captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein the display control section sets a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, so as to be larger than a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the first captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, the display control section sequentially displays the second captured image and the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image on the display section in a predetermined order.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, the display control section displays the second captured image and the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image on the display section at the same time.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising

an operation receiving section that receives a designation operation to designate the specific region in the second captured image displayed on the display section,

wherein, when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, the display control section displays the second captured image on the display section and then enlarges the image of the designated specific region to be displayed on the display section as the enlarged image.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the specific region in the second captured image is a region in which a specific target object in the second captured image is included.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the specific region in the second captured image is a region in which a subject corresponding to a focusing position of the second captured image is included.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein,

when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image, the display control section displays only the first captured image on the display section.

8. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the image generation section generates the first captured image using one imaging device and generates the second captured image by combining a plurality of captured images generated using a plurality of imaging devices.

9. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

an aspect ratio of the first captured image is same as an aspect ratio of a display region of the display section.

10. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an operation receiving section that receives an instruction operation to display a desired captured image on a display section with respect to a first captured image having a predetermined size or a second captured image having an aspect ratio different from that of the first captured image; and

a display control section that, when a captured image to be displayed on the display section based on the instruction operation is the second captured image, displays the second captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the second captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein when the captured image to be displayed on the display section based on the instruction operation is the first captured image, the display control section displays the first captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the first captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein the display control section sets a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, so as to be larger than a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the first captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image.

11. An image processing method comprising:

generating at least one of a first captured image having a predetermined size and a second captured image having an aspect ratio different from that of the first captured image;

upon receiving an instruction operation to record the generated captured image, recording the generated captured image based on the instruction operation; and

when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on a display section is the second captured image, displaying the second captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the second captured image on the display section in a correlated manner, and when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on the display section is the first captured image, displaying the first captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the first captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, is larger than a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the first captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for controlling an information processing apparatus, the program being executable to perform operations comprising:

generating at least one of a first captured image having a predetermined size and a second captured image having an aspect ratio different from that of the first captured image;

upon receiving an instruction operation to record the generated captured image, recording the generated captured image based on the instruction operation; and

when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on a display section is the second captured image, displaying the second captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the second captured image on the display section in a correlated manner, and when a captured image to be displayed at the time of displaying the recorded captured image on the display section is the first captured image, displaying the first captured image and an enlarged image of a specific region in the first captured image on the display section in a correlated manner,

wherein a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the second captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the second captured image, is larger than a magnification ratio of the enlarged image of the specific region in the first captured image displayed on the display section when the captured image to be displayed is the first captured image.