IMAGING APPARATUS, IMAGING DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20170070675A1
• Filed: 11/18/2016
• Published: 03/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: GOTO, Junichiro, ARAI, Takuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,116,864 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/02 with scanning movement of lens or cameras
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/04 with cameras or projectors providing touching or overlapping fields of view
• 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 23/634 Warning indications
• 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 23/698 for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture

Abstract

An image processing apparatus including an interface that receives an input identifying a subject, and a processor that controls a display to display information indicating a position of the subject in a graphic representation corresponding to a panoramic image based on an orientation of a device capturing image data for generating the panoramic image.

Claims

1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:

an interface configured to receive an input identifying a subject;

an imaging unit configured to capture image data for generating a panoramic image; and

a processor configured to control a display to display information indicating a position of the subject in a graphic representation corresponding to the panoramic image based on an orientation of the image capturing apparatus while capturing the image data.