Image pickup apparatus with inclination guide display

• US 9,279,671 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 03/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Tatsuya, Shibata, Masahiro, Ishikawa, Yoshikazu, Ishii, Kazunori, Kawahara, Hideo, Yasuda, Hitoshi, Ishikawa, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Cutler, Albert
• Application Number:
  US14/173,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20140152812A1
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• Field of Search: 348/208.15, 348/333.04
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 11/272 using photoelectric detection means
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/18 Signals indicating condition of a camera member or suitability of light indicating depth of field G03B13/30
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 5/00 Adjustment of optical system relative to image or object surface other than for focusing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/531 being rotatable or detachable
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/635 Region indicators; Field of view indicators
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/64 Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/68 for stable pick-up of the scene, e.g. compensating for camera body vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6811 based on the image signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/6812 based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/682 Vibration or motion blur correction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/907 using static stores, e.g. storage tubes or semiconductor memories H04N5/91 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/025 Systems for the transmission of digital non-picture data, e.g. of text during the active part of a television frame transmission of digital non-picture data during the vertical blanking interval only H04N7/088
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus is disclosed which provides an appropriate inclination guide display in accordance with an aspect ratio of a picked-up image and the like. The image pickup apparatus includes an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image pickup apparatus, a display device capable of superimposedly showing an inclination guide display corresponding to a detection output from the inclination detector, on a picked-up image, and an aspect ratio setter which sets the aspect ratio of a picked-up image. The apparatus includes a display controller which controls whether or not to show the inclination guide display on the display device on the basis of the aspect ratio set by the aspect ratio setter.

Claims

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image-pickup mode setter which sets one image-pickup mode in a plurality of image-pickup modes for each specific image-pickup scene in which a control for picking-up images is preliminarily set depending on the specific image-pickup scene;

an inclination detector which detects an inclination of the image-pickup apparatus;

a display processor for showing, on a display device, an inclination guide display depending on the inclination detected by the inclination detector; and

a display controller which controls display of the inclination guide display in accordance with an image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene, which is set by the image-pickup mode setter,

wherein the display controller changes a level of exaggeration of the inclination guide display in accordance with the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter.

2. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of image-pickup modes for each specific image-pickup scene includes at least one of a scenery image-pickup mode, a portrait image-pickup mode, a sports image-pickup mode, a new green leaves/autumn leaves image-pickup mode and a firework image-pickup mode.

3. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the display controller performs different controls between when the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter is the scenery image-pickup mode and is the portrait image-pickup mode.

4. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the display controller changes an inclination at which the inclination guide display is switched between a display and a non-display in accordance with the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter along with switching between the display and the non-display of the inclination guide display in accordance with the inclination set by the inclination detector.

5. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when the image pickup mode setter sets a specific image pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene, the display controller sets the inclination at which the inclination guide display is switched between the display and the non-display and which is smaller than that when the image-pickup mode setter sets another image-pickup mode.

6. The image pickup apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, when the image pickup mode setter sets a specific image pickup mode for the specific image pickup scene, the display controller increases the level of exaggeration of the inclination guide display.

7. A control method of an image pickup apparatus, the image pickup apparatus including an image-pickup mode setter which sets one image-pickup mode in a plurality of image-pickup modes for each specific image-pickup scene in which a control for picking-up images is preliminarily set depending on the specific image-pickup scene, the control method comprising the steps of:

detecting an inclination of the image-pickup apparatus; and

controlling display of an inclination guide display in accordance with an image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene, which is set by the image-pickup mode setter, along with a process for showing, on a display device, the inclination guide display depending on the inclination detected by the detecting step,

wherein the controlling step changes a level of exaggeration of the inclination guide display in accordance with the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium configured to store a program to enable a computer to execute a method for controlling an image pickup apparatus, the image pickup apparatus including an image-pickup mode setter which sets one image-pickup mode in a plurality of image-pickup modes for each specific image-pickup scene in which a control for picking-up images is preliminarily set depending on the specific image-pickup scene, the control method comprising the steps of:

detecting an inclination of the image-pickup apparatus; and

controlling display of an inclination guide display in accordance with an image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene, which is set by the image-pickup mode setter, along with a process for showing, on a display device, the inclination guide display depending on the inclination detected by the detecting step,

wherein the controlling step changes a level of exaggeration of the inclination guide display in accordance with the image-pickup mode for the specific image-pickup scene set by the image-pickup mode setter.