Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method
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1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a display section;
an imaging condition storage section for storing an imaging condition for each of a plurality of imaging modes;
a setting value storage section for storing setting values for each of said plurality of imaging modes;
a detection section for detecting a selected imaging mode from among said plurality of imaging modes;
a display control section for performing image processing on a working image that has been previously taken, said image processing being performed on the basis of setting values corresponding to said selected imaging mode detected by said detection section from among setting values stored in said setting value storage section, and for displaying a reference image obtained as a result of said image processing onto said display section, wherein the reference image constitutes a simulated image that would result had the working image been taken in the selected imaging mode;
an operating section for accepting an operation input; and
a setting section for setting, among imaging conditions stored in said imaging condition storage section, those imaging conditions of an imaging mode corresponding to said reference image selected by an operation input from said operating section.
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Abstract
The present invention is intended to let users easily and properly select desired imaging modes. A control section controls an image processing section to display icons indicative of imaging modes onto a monitor. When an icon is specified, the control section reads setting values corresponding to the imaging mode corresponding to the specified icon from a setting value storage section. The control section controls the image processing section to generate a reference image based on the read setting values and displays the generated reference image on the monitor. Namely, specifying an icon allows the user to look up a reference image which would have been obtained if a scene appearing on a stored image already taken were imaged in a specified imaging mode. This novel configuration allows the user to easily and properly confirm the effects of a selected imaging mode.
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1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
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a display section; an imaging condition storage section for storing an imaging condition for each of a plurality of imaging modes; a setting value storage section for storing setting values for each of said plurality of imaging modes; a detection section for detecting a selected imaging mode from among said plurality of imaging modes; a display control section for performing image processing on a working image that has been previously taken, said image processing being performed on the basis of setting values corresponding to said selected imaging mode detected by said detection section from among setting values stored in said setting value storage section, and for displaying a reference image obtained as a result of said image processing onto said display section, wherein the reference image constitutes a simulated image that would result had the working image been taken in the selected imaging mode; an operating section for accepting an operation input; and a setting section for setting, among imaging conditions stored in said imaging condition storage section, those imaging conditions of an imaging mode corresponding to said reference image selected by an operation input from said operating section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An image pickup method comprising the steps of:
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storing an imaging condition for each of a plurality of imaging modes; storing a setting value for each of said plurality of imaging modes; detecting a selected imaging mode from among said plurality of imaging modes; performing image processing on a working image that has been previously taken, said image processing being performed on the basis of setting values corresponding to said selected imaging mode detected in the detection step and displaying a reference image obtained as a result of said image processing, wherein the reference image constitutes a simulated image that would result had the working image been taken in the selected imaging mode; accepting an operation input; and setting those image conditions of an imaging mode corresponding to said reference image selected by an operation input in the operating step among imaging conditions stored by the imaging condition storage step. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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