Imaging apparatus having a projector with automatic photography activation based on superimposition

• US 9,332,208 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Issued: 05/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Daisuke, Kondou, Shigeru, Aoki, Takashi, Inoue, Kazuki, Oshima, Hiroyuki, Misawa, Takeshi, Misawa, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Jay
• Assistant Examiner(s): SUH, JOSEPH JINWOO
• Application Number:
  US14/485,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20150002633A1
• Time in Patent Office: 599 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 17/54 with projector
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/10 having single camera with stereoscopic-base-defining system
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/204 using stereoscopic image cameras stereoscopic photography G03B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/631 Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera
• 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 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 Mixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/7475 Constructional details of television projection apparatus

Abstract

An imaging apparatus having a projector, includes: an imaging unit that photographs a subject; a mirror image converting unit that converts a live view image photographed by the imaging unit into a mirror image; a projector that projects the mirror image of the live view image in a direction opposite to a photographing direction of the imaging unit; a control unit that initiates actual photography for recording the subject by the imaging unit when a posture of a main subject satisfies a predetermined condition; and a pose image superimposing unit that superimpose a pose image on a projected image, in which the control unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied and performs the actual photography when a superimposition degree of the main subject in the projected image and the pose image is a threshold value or more.

Claims

1. An imaging apparatus having a projector, comprising:

an imaging unit that photographs a subject;

a mirror image converting unit that converts a live view image photographed by the imaging unit into a mirror image;

a projector that projects the mirror image of the live view image in a direction opposite to a photographing direction of the imaging unit;

a control unit that initiates actual photography for recording the subject by the imaging unit when a posture of a main subject satisfies a predetermined condition; and

a pose image superimposing unit that superimpose a pose image on a projected image,

wherein the control unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied and performs the actual photography when a superimposition degree of the main subject in the projected image and the pose image is a threshold value or more, and

the control unit extracts an outline shape of the main subject in the projected image, and performs enlargement and reduction of the pose image so that a size of the outline shape is coincident with a size of the pose image,

wherein the imaging unit photographs a stereoscopic image, and

the outline shape is extracted from a subject which is detected using the stereoscopic image and present at the same distance from the imaging apparatus.

2. An imaging apparatus having a projector, comprising:

an imaging unit that photographs a subject;

a mirror image converting unit that converts a live view image photographed by the imaging unit into a mirror image;

a projector that projects the mirror image of the live view image in a direction opposite to a photographing direction of the imaging unit;

a control unit that initiates actual photography for recording the subject by the imaging unit when a posture of a main subject satisfies a predetermined condition; and

a pose image superimposing unit that superimpose a pose image on a projected image,

wherein the control unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied and performs the actual photography when a superimposition degree of the main subject in the projected image and the pose image is a threshold value or more, and

the control unit extracts an outline shape of the main subject in the projected image, and performs enlargement and reduction of the pose image so that a size of the outline shape is coincident with a size of the pose image,

wherein the control unit displays information indicating the superimposition degree to be superimposed on the projected image.

3. The imaging apparatus of claim 2, wherein the control unit displays the information indicating the superimposition degree and a value of the threshold value to be superimposed on the projected image.