Capturing device, image processing method, and program

• US 8,890,935 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2010
• Issued: 11/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, Mitsuru
• Primary Examiner(s): Rao, Andy
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRUONG, NGUYEN T
• Application Number:
  US12/924,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20110090315A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,510 Days
• Field of Search: 348/43, 348/46, 396324-331
• US Class Current: 348/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/218 using spatial multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/289 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/296 Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/302 for viewing without the aid of special glasses, i.e. using autostereoscopic displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes

Abstract

A capturing device includes a display section that changes between and displays a three-dimensional (3D) image and a two-dimensional (2D) image, and a controller that performs an image display control for the display section, wherein the controller changes a display mode of an image displayed on the display section, from a 3D image display to a 2D image display, in accordance with preset setting information, at the time of performing a focus control process.

Claims

1. A capturing device comprising:

a display section that changes between and displays a three-dimensional (3D) image and a two-dimensional (2D) image;

an input section to enable a user to select a set display mode during a menu setting operation which is to be utilized during a focus control process, said menu setting operation occurring prior to the focus control process, said input section including a first input to enable the user to select a 3D image display as the set display mode, a second input to enable the user to select a 2D image display as the set display mode, and a third input to enable the user to select an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image in which the left eye image and the right eye image are automatically alternated at a predetermined time interval as the set display mode and in which the left eye image and the right eye image are non-stereoscopic images; and

a controller that performs an image display control for the display section,

in which at a time of performing the focus control process the controller automatically causes the display mode of an image displayed on the display section to be the selected set display mode such that at the time of performing the focus control process the display mode is set to the selected set display mode without a mode changing display input from the user, and

in which the predetermined time interval is several seconds, such that when the alternating display is selected as the selected set display mode a respective left eye image and a respective right eye image which are non-stereoscopic images are automatically alternated with a time interval of several seconds therebetween so that one of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds and thereafter the other of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds.

2. A capturing device comprising:

a display section that changes between and displays a three-dimensional (3D) image and a two-dimensional (2D) image;

an input section to enable a user to select an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image in which the left eye image and the right eye image are automatically alternated at a predetermined time interval and in which the left eye image and the right eye image are non-stereoscopic images, as a selected set display mode during a menu setting operation prior to a focus control process; and

a controller that performs an image display control for the display section,

in which at a time of performing the focus control process the controller automatically causes the display mode of an image displayed on the display section to be the selected set display mode such that at the time of performing the focus control process the display mode is set to the selected set display mode without a mode changing display input from the user, and

in which the predetermined time interval is several seconds, such that when the alternating display is selected as the selected set display mode a respective left eye image and a respective right eye image which are non-stereoscopic images are automatically alternated with a time interval of several seconds therebetween so that one of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds and thereafter the other of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds.

3. An image processing method which performs a display control for a display section of a capturing device, wherein the display section of the capturing device changes between and displays a 3D image and a 2D image, the method comprising the steps of:

enabling a user to select an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image in which the left eye image and the right eye image are automatically alternated at a predetermined time interval and in which the left eye image and the right eye image are non-stereoscopic images, as a selected set display mode during a menu setting operation prior to a focus control process; and

performing an image display control for the display section by use of a controller,

in which at a time of performing the focus control process the controller automatically causes the display mode of an image displayed on the display section to be the selected set display mode such that at the time of performing the focus control process the display mode is set to the selected set display mode without a mode changing display input from the user, and

in which the predetermined time interval is several seconds, such that when the alternating display is selected as the selected set display mode a respective left eye image and a respective right eye image which are non-stereoscopic images are automatically alternated with a time interval of several seconds therebetween so that one of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds and thereafter the other of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds.

4. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored thereon a program which executes a display control for a display section of a capturing device, wherein the display section of the capturing device changes between and displays a 3D image and a 2D image, the program executing the steps of:

enabling a user to select an alternating display of a left eye image and a right eye image in which the left eye image and the right eye image are automatically alternated at a predetermined time interval and in which the left eye image and the right eye image are non-stereoscopic images, as a selected set display mode during a menu setting operation prior to a focus control process; and

performing an image display control for the display section by use of a controller,

in which at a time of performing the focus control process the controller automatically causes the display mode of an image displayed on the display section to be the selected set display mode such that at the time of performing the focus control process the display mode is set to the selected set display mode without a mode changing display input from the user, and

in which the predetermined time interval is several seconds, such that when the alternating display is selected as the selected set display mode a respective left eye image and a respective right eye image which are non-stereoscopic images are automatically alternated with a time interval of several seconds therebetween so that one of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds and thereafter the other of the respective left eye image or the respective right eye image is caused to be displayed on the display section for the several seconds.