Image pickup apparatus and its control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9013618-B2
Application number	US-201414334032-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 17, 2014
Priority date	Mar 15, 2010
Publication date	Apr 21, 2015
Grant date	Apr 21, 2015

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus controls in such a manner that if a touch applied to a touch operation member is detected by a detection unit arranged to detect a touch operation applied to the touch operation member, a photographic preparation unit makes an adjustment of a photographic setting, and after the touch, if the detection unit detects a predetermined touch operation and thereafter detects that the touch operation member loses the touch applied thereto, a photographic processing unit does not execute a photographic processing, while after the touch, if the detection unit detects that the touch operation member loses the touch applied thereto without detecting the predetermined touch operation, the photographic processing unit executes the photographic processing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
an image pickup unit;
a display unit configured to display a live image picked up by the image pickup unit;
a photographic preparation unit configured to adjust a photographic setting;
a photographic processing unit configured to effect the photography by the image pickup unit on the basis of the photographic setting adjusted by the photographic preparation unit and execute a recording processing for recording a ph…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Saito Kyota

Classifications

• H04N23/631 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/635

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/62 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F3/0488 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04817

  Physics · mapped topic