Image pickup apparatus, control method of image pickup apparatus, and program

• US 9,602,709 B2
• Filed: 12/27/2013
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kitajima, Kotaro
• Primary Examiner(s): Peterson, Christopher K
• Application Number:
  US14/141,967
• Publication Number:
  US 20140184825A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,180 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/85 for matrixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/67 for matrixing camera processing pipelines for matrixing of colour signals H04N23/85

Abstract

A control method of an image pickup apparatus has: an output step of outputting a photographed image to an external image processing apparatus; a transmission step of transmitting a transmission request of parameter information of an image processing to the photographed image which is generated by the external image processing apparatus, to the external image processing apparatus; a receiving step of receiving the parameter information from the external image processing apparatus; a recording step of recording the received parameter information in relation the photographed image; a detection step of detecting an operation in the image pickup apparatus; and a control step of executing a processing for transmitting the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus in the transmission step when the predetermined operation is detected in the detection step.

Claims

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:

an image sensor for picking up an image of an object;

a storage for storing a photographed image picked up by the image sensor;

an output interface for outputting the photographed image picked up by the image sensor to an external image processing apparatus;

a communication device for transmitting, to the external image processing apparatus, a transmission request of parameter information of an image processing that is performed on the photographed image, the external image processing apparatus setting the parameter information for the photographed image, and for receiving,

from the external image processing apparatus, the parameter information that is transmitted from the external image processing apparatus according to the transmission request;

a system control processor and a memory storing a program executable by the system control processor to cause the system control processor to perform the functions of a recording unit, an operation detection unit and a control unit,

the recording unit recording, in the storage, the parameter information received by the communication device in relation to the photographed image, the parameter information being used for performing a same image processing on the photographed image related to the parameter information as an image processing performed on the photographed image by the external image processing apparatus;

the operation detection unit detecting an operation in the image pickup apparatus; and

the control unit controlling the transmission of the transmission request of the parameter information by the communication device,

wherein the control unit controls the communication device so as to transmit the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus when the operation detection unit detects a predetermined operation.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, the system control processor further performing the functions of an obtaining unit and a determination unit,

the obtaining unit obtaining, from the external image processing apparatus, information for determining whether or not the photographed image which is output from the output interface is input to the external image processing apparatus;

and

the determination unit determining whether or not the photographed image is input to the external image processing apparatus on the basis of the information obtained by the obtaining unit,

wherein the control unit controls the communication device so as to transmit the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus when the determination unit determines that the photographed image is input to the external image processing apparatus.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the parameter information is parameter information for adjusting a color and a gradation.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation in the image pickup apparatus, which is detected by the operation detection unit, is an operation regarding the recording of the photographed image.

5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation in the image pickup apparatus, which is detected by the operation detection unit, is an operation regarding the reproduction of the photographed image.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation in the image pickup apparatus, which is detected by the operation detection unit, is an operation to determine an image angle of the photographed image.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the operation in the image pickup apparatus, which is detected by the operation detection unit, is an operation to adjust an amount of light which enters the image pickup unit.

8. An apparatus according to claim 1, the system control processor further performing the functions of a warning unit configured to warn a user when the parameter information cannot be received by the communication device after the communication device transmits the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus.

9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication device receives numeric information of the parameter information.

10. An apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the recording unit records the parameter information received by the communication device as additional information of the photographed image.

11. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication device transmits the transmission request of ID information to specify the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus, and

receives the ID information from the external image processing apparatus.

12. An apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the recording unit specifies the parameter information from the ID information received by the communication device and records the specified parameter information as additional information of the photographed image.

13. An apparatus according to claim 1, the system control processor further performing the functions of a change detection unit configured to detect a change between photographing state information of a preceding photographed image and a current photographed image,

and wherein when the change detection unit does not detect the change of the photographing state information, the recording unit records the parameter information related to the preceding photographed image as additional information of the current photographed image.

14. An apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the photographing state information is information including one of a state of the photographed object and a state of the operation of the image pickup apparatus.

15. A control method of an image pickup apparatus, comprising:

storing a photographed image in a storage;

outputting the photographed image to an external image processing apparatus;

transmitting, to the external image processing apparatus, a transmission request of parameter information of an image processing that is performed on the photographed image, the external image processing apparatus setting the parameter information for the photographed image;

receiving, from the external image processing apparatus, the parameter information that is transmitted from the external image processing apparatus according to the transmission request;

recording, in the storage, the parameter information received in the reception step in relation to the photographed image, the parameter information being used for performing a same image processing on the photographed image related to the parameter information as an image processing performed on the photographed image by the external image processing apparatus;

detecting an operation in the image pickup apparatus; and

executing a processing for transmitting the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus in the transmission step when the predetermined operation is detected in the operation detection step.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for allowing a computer to execute the steps of:

storing a photographed image in a storage;

outputting a photographed image to an external image processing apparatus;

transmitting, to the external image processing apparatus, a transmission request of parameter information of an image processing that is performed on the photographed image, the external image processing apparatus setting the parameter information for the photographed image;

receiving, from the external image processing apparatus, the parameter information that is transmitted from the external image processing apparatus according to the transmission request;

recording, in the storage, the parameter information received in the reception step in relation to the photographed image, the parameter information being used for performing a same image processing on the photographed image related to the parameter information as an image processing performed on the photographed image by the external image processing apparatus;

detecting an operation in the image pickup apparatus; and

executing a processing for transmitting the transmission request of the parameter information to the external image processing apparatus in the transmission step when the predetermined operation is detected in the operation detection step.