CONDITION CHANGING DEVICE

• US 20130271401A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OM Digital Solutions Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Imaging Corporation (Olympus Corporation)
• Inventors: Sakuma, Izumi, Nonaka, Osamu, Sakai, Koji
• Granted Patent: US 8,767,113 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/675 comprising setting of focusing regions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/70 Circuitry for compensating brightness variation in the scene

Abstract

A condition change unit of the present invention changes operating conditions of a device. The condition change unit comprises a display section for displaying images, a touch panel provided on the display section, a detection section for detecting input operations to the touch panel, a change condition setting section for setting types of change conditions, based on form of the input operations detected by the detection section, an operation guide image display section for displaying guidance images, for setting specific parameters of the change conditions, on the display section, in accordance with the type of change condition that has been set, and a parameter change section for changing parameters of the change condition based on an input operation to a screen on which the operation guidance operation images are displayed that has been detected by the detection section.

Claims

1. A condition change unit for changing operating conditions of a device, comprising:

a display section for displaying images;

a touch panel provided on the display section;

a detection section for detecting input operations to the touch panel;

a change condition setting section for setting types of change conditions, based on a mode of the input operations detected by the detection section;

an operation guide image display section for displaying guidance images, for setting specific parameters of the change conditions, on the display section, in accordance with the type of change condition that has been set;

a parameter change section for changing parameters of the change condition based on an input operation to a screen on which the operation guidance operation images are displayed that has been detected by the detection section;

a view-through type second display section for displaying images; and

a control section for selecting whether to display on the display section, or to display on the second display section;

wherein

the operation image display section has a different display format for a case where the operation guide images are displayed on the display section, and a case where the operation guide images are displayed on the second display section.

2. A camera of claim 1, comprising

a camera body having the display section fixedly provided on a rear surface, and having the second display section removably attached thereto.

3. A condition change unit for changing operating conditions of a device, comprising:

a display section for displaying images;

a touch panel provided on the display section;

a detection section for detecting input operations to the touch panel;

a change condition setting section for setting types of change conditions, based on a mode of the input operations detected by the detection section;

an operation guide image display section for displaying guidance images, for setting specific parameters of the change conditions, on the display section, in accordance with the type of change condition that has been set;

a parameter change section for changing parameters of the change condition based on an input operation to a screen on which the operation guidance operation images are displayed that has been detected by the detection section;

a second view through type display section for displaying images is provided;

the operation guide image display section displays the operation guide images on either the display section or the second display section, and

the parameter change section switches a change amount for a parameter in accordance with amount of an input operation, in response to a display destination for the operation guide images being the display section or the second display section.

4. A camera of claim 3, wherein

the display section is fixedly provided on a rear surface, and the second display section is removably attached to a camera body.