Electronic apparatus and control program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016112644-A1
Application number	US-201314760953-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 31, 2013
Priority date	May 31, 2013
Publication date	Apr 21, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

To make a difference between respective accumulation conditions of first and second regions of a live view image and then to check the live view image for changes in an image corresponding to the changes in the accumulation conditions of the respective regions. An electronic apparatus includes an image-capture unit and a system control unit. The image-capture unit includes an image sensor and captures an image of first and second regions. The system control unit causes a display unit to display a live view image corresponding to the image of the first and second regions captured by the image-capture unit. The system control unit also makes a difference between respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions of the live view image.

First claim

1 . An electronic apparatus comprising:
an image-capture unit comprising an image sensor, the image-capture unit being capable of capturing an image of first and second regions; a control unit configured to cause a display unit to display a live view image corresponding to an image of the first and second regions captured by the image-capture unit; and a change unit configured to make a difference between respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions of the live view image.

2 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the change unit makes a difference between respective accumulation times of the first and second regions.

3 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the change unit makes a difference between respective frame rates of the first and second regions.

4 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the change unit makes a difference between respective gains of the first and second regions.

5 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the change unit makes a difference between the respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions on the basis of at least one of contrast and color change of the live view image.

6 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a detection unit configured to detect a moving subject,
wherein the change unit makes a difference between the respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit.

7 . An electronic apparatus comprising:
a display unit capable of displaying a live view image corresponding to an image of first and second regions captured by an image-capture unit comprising an image sensor; and a control unit configured to cause the display unit to display menus for setting image-capture conditions of the live view image while the live view image is displayed on the display unit.

8 . The electronic apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising a selection unit capable of selecting between the first and second regions of the live view image.

9 . The electronic apparatus of claim 8 , further comprising an image combining unit configured to cause the image-capture unit to capture an image of at least part of the region selected by the selection unit a plurality of times and configured to combine resulting images.

10 . The electronic apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the selection unit comprises a first operation unit configured to select part of the live view image.

11 . The electronic apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first operation unit is provided with a touchscreen formed on the display unit.

12 . The electronic apparatus of claim 7 , further comprising a second operation unit configured to select among the menus.

13 . The electronic apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the control unit causes the display unit to display at least one of a menu related to a gain, a menu related to an accumulation time, and a menu related to a frame rate.

14 . The electronic apparatus of claim 7 , wherein the control unit causes the display unit to display the menus near the live view image.

15 . A control program for causing a control device of an electronic apparatus to perform:
a display process of causing a display unit to display a live view image corresponding to an image of first and second regions captured by an image-capture unit, wherein the image-capture unit is included in the electronic apparatus, comprises an image sensor, and is capable of capturing an image of the first and second regions; and a change process of making a difference between respective accumulation conditions of the first and second regions of the live view image.

16 . A control program for causing a control device of an electronic apparatus to perform:
a first display process of causing a display unit to display a live view image corresponding to an image of first and second regions captured by an image-capture unit comprising an image sensor, wherein the display unit is included in the electronic apparatus and is capable of displaying the live view image; and a second display process of causing the display unit to display menus for setting image-capture conditions of the live view image while the first display process is performed.

Assignees

• Nikon Corp

Inventors

• Nishi Takeshi

Classifications

• G06T7/11

  Region-based segmentation · CPC title

• G06T7/194

  involving foreground-background segmentation · CPC title

• G06T2207/10004

  Still image; Photographic image · CPC title

• H04N23/62 Primary

  Control of parameters via user interfaces · CPC title

• H04N23/632 Primary

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