Electronic apparatus, method for controlling the electronic apparatus, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11500458-B2
Application number	US-202016902606-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2020
Priority date	Jun 17, 2019
Publication date	Nov 15, 2022
Grant date	Nov 15, 2022

Abstract

A reception unit receives an eye direction input that is an input based on an eye tracking process, and a control unit controls movement of a selected position based on an operation on an operation member. The control unit performs control such that, in a first state in which the selected position is not designated based on the eye direction input, the selected position is moved, in response to the operation member being operated by a predetermined operation amount, by a first amount from a position set before the operation member is operated, and that, in a second state in which the selected position is designated based on the eye direction input, the selected position is moved, in response to the operation member being operated by the predetermined operation amount, by a second amount smaller than the first amount from a position based on the eye direction input.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memories storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising:
receiving an eye direction input that is an input based on an eye tracking process; and
controlling movement of a display position based on an operation on an operation member,
wherein the display position is moved by a first amount or a second amount and from, respectively, a first position or a second position depending on whether the apparatus is operating in a first state or second state with respect to eye direction input, and
wherein
in the first state, the display position is not designated based on the eye direction input, and, in response to the operation member being operated by a predetermined movement amount, the display position is moved by the first amount from the first position, the first position being a position the display position was set to before the operation member was operated, and
in the second state, the display position is designated based on the eye direction input, and, in response to the operation member being operated by the predetermined movement amount, the display position is moved by the second amount from the second position, the second position being designated based on the received eye direction input, before the operation member was operated, and the first amount being larger than the second amount.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the operations further comprise:
setting a setting to any one of a plurality of settings including:
a first setting of moving, in response to the operation member being operated by the predetermined movement amount, the display position by a predetermined amount based on a first position set before the operation member is operated, from the first position set before the operation, and
a second setting of moving, in response to the operation member being operated, the display position to a second position corresponding to an operation position at which an operation on the operation member is started, irrespective of the first position set before the operation,
wherein, in the second state, the control is performed such that the display position is moved by the second amount from the first position set before the operation, in response to the operation with the predetermined movement amount, irrespective of what setting is set by the apparatus in the setting step.

3. The apparatus according to claim 2 ,
wherein, in a case where the setting related to an operation on the operation member is set to the first setting in the first state, in response to the operation member being operated by the predetermined movement amount, the control is performed such that the display position is moved by the first amount based on the first position set before the operation member is operated, from the first position set before the operation, and
wherein, in a case where the setting related to an operation on the operation member is set to the second setting in the first state, in response to the operation member being operated, the control is performed such that the display position is moved to the second position corresponding to the operation position at which the operation on the operation member is started, irrespective of the display position set before the operation.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise displaying an indicator indicating that a displayed position is the display position, at the display position.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the indicator is displayed in response to the operation member being operated by a user.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the control is performed such that the display position is moved based on the eye direction input in a case where the operation member is not being operated, or the eye direction input at an operation start time point, and performs control such that the display position is not moved based on the eye direction input during an operation performed after the operation is started with the operation member.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first state is a state in which a setting related to the eye direction input is set to a setting of not moving the display position based on the eye direction input, and the second state is a state in which the setting related to the eye direction input is set to a setting of moving the display position based on the eye direction input.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first state is a state in which the eye direction input is not detected by a detector configured to detect the eye direction input received by the apparatus, and the second state is a state in which the eye direction input is detected by the detector.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first amount is an amount obtained by multiplying the predetermined movement amount by a first coefficient, and the second amount is an amount obtained by multiplying the predetermined movement amount by a second coefficient smaller than the first coefficient.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second amount is a movement amount by which the display position is not moved from an end of a screen to another end of the screen with a single operation on the operation member.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the operation member is a touch operation member configured to detect a touch operation.

12. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the operation member is any one of the operation member configured to calculate a moving direction and a movement amount of a finger by the finger moving over a surface of the operation member, and move the display position, a directional key operable in eight directions, a joystick, and a directional key including a press button pressable in four directions.

13. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the second state is a state in which a movement amount of a position at which the eye direction input is detected within a predetermined time is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold.

14. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the display position is a display position for a focus detection region.

15. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an image sensor;
a viewfinder; and
a display in the viewfinder,
wherein the display position displayed on a subject image on the display can be moved by the operation member provided on an outside of the viewfinder being operated.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform the operations that are performed by the apparatus according to claim 1 .

17. A method for controlling an apparatus, the method comprising:
receiving an eye direction input that is an input based on an eye tracking process; and
controlling movement of a display position based on an operation on an operation member,
wherein the display position is moved by a first amount or a second amount and from, respectively, a first position or a second position depending on whether the apparatus is operating in a first state or second state with respect to eye direction input, and
wherein
in the first state, the display position is not designated based on the eye direction input, and, in response to the operation member being operated by the predetermined movement amount, the display position is moved by the first amount from the first position,

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Ichikawa Sho

Classifications

• G03B13/02 Primary

  Viewfinders · CPC title

• G06V40/193

  Preprocessing; Feature extraction · CPC title

• G06V10/235

  based on user input or interaction · CPC title

• G06F3/013 Primary

  Eye tracking input arrangements (G06F3/015 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04N23/667

  Camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution modes · CPC title