Image capturing device and captured image display method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10986272-B2
Application number	US-201816489248-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2018
Priority date	Mar 3, 2017
Publication date	Apr 20, 2021
Grant date	Apr 20, 2021

Abstract

An object of the present disclosure is to display a captured image and a shake corrected image thereof on the same screen. An imaging device is provided and has a configuration provided with a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for correcting image shake in a frame image, a shake corrected image generator that generates a shake corrected image in which the image shake is corrected by performing a geometrical conversion with respect to a current frame image based on the correction amount, and a synthesized image generator that generates a synthesized image in which the current frame image and the shake corrected image are disposed on the same screen.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An imaging device for imaging captured images including a plurality of frame images in time series by an imaging element, the device comprising:
an angular velocity sensor that detects a physical shake amount of the imaging device;
a processor and a memory that stores an instruction, the imaging device further comprising, as a configuration when the processor executes the instruction stored in the memory:
a correction amount calculator that calculates a correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on the physical shake amount;
a shake corrected image generator that generates a shake corrected image in which the image shake is corrected by performing a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on the correction amount; and
a synthesized image generator that generates a synthesized image in which the current frame image and the shake corrected image are disposed on a same screen when the angular velocity sensor detects that the physical shake amount of the imaging device reaches a threshold value.

2. The imaging device of claim 1 ,
wherein the synthesized image is configured with a master screen and a slave screen which is disposed on the master screen, and
wherein one of the current frame image and the shake corrected image is disposed on the master screen, and the other is disposed on the slave screen, by the synthesized image generator.

3. The imaging device of claim 2 ,
wherein the synthesized image generator changes a screen size of at least one of the master screen and the slave screen, and a disposition position of the slave screen on the master screen, according to a command input from a user.

4. The imaging device of claim 1 ,
wherein the synthesized image is configured with a first screen and a second screen disposed side by side in a left-and-right direction or up-and-down direction, and
wherein one of the current frame image and the shake corrected image is disposed on the first screen, and the other is disposed on the second screen, by the synthesized image generator.

5. The imaging device of claim 4 ,
wherein the synthesized image generator changes screen sizes of the first screen and the second screen according to a command input from a user.

6. The imaging device of claim 1 , further comprising as the configuration when the processor executes the instruction stored in the memory:
a shaken image generator that generates a shaken image including the image shake by performing the geometrical conversion with respect to the shake corrected image based on the correction amount,
wherein the synthesized image generator uses the shaken image instead of the current frame image.

7. A display method of captured images including a plurality of frame images imaged in time series by an imaging element, the method comprising:
detecting a physical shake amount of the imaging element;
calculating a correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on the physical shake amount;
generating a shake corrected image in which the image shake is corrected by performing a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on the correction amount; and
generating a synthesized image in which the current frame image and the shake corrected image are disposed on a same screen, when the detecting of the physical shake amount of the imaging element reaches a threshold value.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tabei Kenji
• Tanaka Shogo

Classifications

• H04N23/683 Primary

  performed by a processor, e.g. controlling the readout of an image memory · CPC title

• H04N23/6811

  based on the image signal · CPC title

• H04N23/63

  by using electronic viewfinders · CPC title

• H04N23/6812

  based on additional sensors, e.g. acceleration sensors · CPC title

• H04N23/632

  for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters · CPC title