Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor

• US 9,143,688 B2
• Filed: 06/17/2014
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Noguchi, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): OSINSKI, MICHAEL S
• Application Number:
  US14/306,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20140293075A1
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: 34820899-20816, 348/222.1, 348/241, 34833301-33313, 382254-255, 396 52- 55
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/634 Warning indications
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6812 based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/683 performed by a processor, e.g. controlling the readout of an image memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/685 performed by mechanical compensation

Abstract

An image capturing apparatus having a plurality of executable image blurring correction modes selects an image blurring correction mode to be executed from among the executable image blurring correction modes in accordance with an image capturing situation, and executes the selected image blurring correction mode. The image capturing apparatus has a plurality of display items respectively associated with the image blurring correction modes, and displays the display item corresponding to the image blurring correction mode under execution on a display screen.

Claims

1. An image capturing apparatus having a plurality of image blurring correction modes which have correction effects that are different from each other, comprising:

a selection unit configured to select an image blurring correction mode for execution from amongst the plurality of image blurring correction modes; and

a display control unit configured to display, on a display screen, a display item corresponding to the image blurring correction mode selected by said selection unit while said image capturing apparatus is operating in an image capturing mode, wherein the selection unit is configured to automatically select an image blurring correction mode from amongst the plurality of image blurring correction modes for execution, in accordance with an image capturing situation.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said image capturing apparatus has a moving image capturing mode and a still image capturing mode, and

the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes image blurring modes corresponding to the moving image capturing mode and the still image capturing mode, respectively.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes a mode which stops at least image blurring correction.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes image blurring correction mode appropriate for an image capturing by panning.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein in the image blurring correction mode appropriate for image capturing by panning, when a camera is moved in one direction, image blurring correction in camera moving direction is stopped, and image blurring correction is performed only on components orthogonal to the camera moving direction.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes an image blurring correction mode appropriate for a still image capturing mode with small object distance.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein in the image blurring correction mode appropriate for a still image capturing mode with small object distance, both angle shake and shift shake are corrected.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes an image blurring correction mode appropriate for a moving image capturing mode in which a focal length is larger than a predetermined value.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, wherein in the image blurring correction mode appropriate for a moving image capturing mode in which the focal length is larger than a predetermined value, an anti-vibration effect on a lower frequency shake is enhanced.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes an image blurring correction mode appropriate for a moving image capturing mode in which a focal length is smaller than a predetermined value.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein in the image blurring correction mode appropriate for a moving image capturing mode in which the focal length is smaller than a predetermined value, an image blurring correction effect is enhanced more than usual by broadening the image blurring correction range on a wide-angle end side.

12. A control method of an image capturing apparatus having a plurality of image blurring correction modes which have correction effects that are different from each other, comprising:

a selection step of selecting an image blurring correction mode for execution from amongst the plurality of image blurring correction modes; and

a display control step of displaying, on a display screen, a display item corresponding to the image blurring correction mode selected in the selection step while said image capturing apparatus is operating in an image capturing mode, wherein the selection step automatically selects an image blurring correction mode from amongst the plurality of image blurring correction modes for execution, in accordance with an image capturing situation.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein said image capturing apparatus has a moving image capturing mode and a still image capturing mode, and

the plurality of image blurring correction modes include image blurring modes corresponding to the moving image capturing mode and the still image capturing mode, respectively.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein the plurality of image blurring correction modes includes a mode which stops at least an image blurring correction.

15. An image capturing apparatus having a plurality of image blurring correction modes, comprising:

a detection unit configured to detect a status of said image capturing apparatus;

a switching unit configured to automatically switch an image blurring correction mode for execution, in accordance with the status detected by the detection unit, from among the plurality of image blurring correction modes which have correction effects that are different from each other; and

a display control unit configured to display, on a display screen, a display item corresponding to the image blurring correction mode being executed in response to an image blurring correction mode that is switched by the switching unit.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the detection unit detects at least one of a capturing mode of said image capturing apparatus, an object distance, camera shake amount, camera shake duration and focal length.

17. A control method of an image capturing apparatus having a plurality of image blurring correction modes, comprising:

a detection step of detecting a status of said image capturing apparatus;

a switching step of automatically switching an image blurring correction mode for execution, in accordance with the status detected in the detection step, from among the plurality of image blurring correction modes which have correction effects that are different from each other; and

a display control step of displaying, on a display screen, a display item corresponding to the image blurring correction mode being executed in response to an image blurring correction mode that is switched in the switching step.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the detection step detects at least one of a capturing mode of said image capturing apparatus, an object distance, camera shake amount, camera shake duration and focal length.