Photographing apparatus, image display apparatus, and display control method of image display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9215375-B2
Application number	US-201414204426-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 11, 2014
Priority date	Mar 15, 2013
Publication date	Dec 15, 2015
Grant date	Dec 15, 2015

Abstract

A photographing apparatus includes an image pickup section configured by a photographing optical system for aiming at a target, and an image pickup device, a display section for receiving an image signal outputted from the image pickup section, and for displaying an image, a display control section for controlling display on the display section, a main object setting section for setting the target based on the image signal outputted from the image pickup section, and a zoom control section for performing zooming with respect to the target, wherein auxiliary displaying for clearly indicating a position of the target set by the main object setting section is performed, being superimposed on the image displayed on the display section.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A photographing apparatus comprising:
an image pickup section configured by a photographing optical system for aiming at a target, and an image pickup device;
a display section for receiving an image signal outputted from the image pickup section, and for displaying an image;
a display control section for controlling display on the display section;
a main object setting section for setting the target based on the image signal outputted from the image pickup section;
a zoom control section for performing zooming with respect to the target;
an ideal image creation section for creating a plurality of pieces of ideal image data that represent ideal images in each of which a main object is positioned substantially at a center of a field of view of a viewfinder and which correspond to arbitrary timings during continuous change in an angle of view due to zooming, based on image data acquired in a focus region on a short focus side before execution of zooming by the zoom control section; and
an image comparison section for comparing the ideal images created by the ideal image creation section and output images based on pieces of image data sequentially outputted from the image pickup section,
wherein the display control performs auxiliary displaying for clearly indicating a position of the target set by the main object setting section, such that the auxiliary displaying is superimposed on the image displayed on the display section,
the image comparison section identifies a difference region between the ideal image and an output image based on a result of an image comparison process, and
the display control section displays the difference region as the auxiliary displaying in a manner allowing viewing.

2. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the auxiliary displaying is performed during zooming by the zoom control section.

3. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the difference region identified by the image comparison section covers an entire region of an image, an image based on the ideal image data created by the ideal image creation section is displayed as the auxiliary displaying.

4. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the zoom control section drives the photographing optical system to cause the photographing optical system to perform zoom control.

5. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the zoom control section controls an image processing section to cause the image processing section to perform electronic zoom control.

6. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the main object setting section is an object detection section and is a face detection section.

7. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the main object setting section is a moving object prediction section for calculating a motion vector between frames of pieces image data sequentially outputted from the image pickup section and for detecting a moving object.

8. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
an attitude determination section is a camera shake determination section, and
the camera shake determination section determines an attitude of the apparatus based on a detection result of an accelerometer or an angular velocity sensor.

9. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a coordinate determination section for determining a position of a main object in an image based on image data outputted from the image pickup section,
wherein the coordinate determination section determines the position of the main object based on a detection result of an accelerometer, an angular velocity sensor or an azimuth sensor.

10. The photographing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein an image based on the ideal image data created by the ideal image creation section is displayed, as the auxiliary displaying, in a partial region of the image displayed on the display section.

11. The photographing apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein an icon indicating a main object is displayed, being superimposed on an image by the auxiliary displaying that is displayed in a partial region of the image displayed on the display section, at a predicted position of the moving object detected by the moving object prediction section.

12. An image display apparatus capable of changing an observation angle of view and acquiring an image, the image display apparatus comprising:
an ideal image creation section for creating a plurality of pieces of ideal image data that represent ideal images in each of which a main object is positioned substantially at a center of a field of view of a viewfinder and which correspond to arbitrary timings during continuous change in an angle of view due to an angle-of-view change operation;
an image comparison section for sequentially comparing the ideal images and images acquired based on the angle-of-view change operation; and
a display control section for displaying a difference region between the ideal image and the image acquired based on the angle-of-view change operation as an auxiliary displaying in a manner allowing viewing, according to a result of identification of the difference region by the image comparison section based on a result of an image comparison process.

13. A display control method of an image display apparatus capable of changing an observation angle of view and acquiring an image, the display control method comprising:
creating a plurality of pieces of ideal image data that represent ideal images in each of which a main object is positioned substantially at a center of a field of view of a viewfinder and which correspond to arbitrary timings during continuous change in an angle of view due to an angle-of-view change operation;
sequentially comparing ideal images and images acquired based on the angle-of-view change operation; and
identifying a difference region between the ideal image and the image acquired based on the angle-of-view change operation, based on a result of an image comparison process, and displaying the difference region in a manner allowing viewing.

14. A photographing method comprising:
a display step of receiving an image signal and displaying an image, the image signal being outputted from an image pickup section that comprises a photographing optical system for aiming at a target and an image pickup device;
a display control step of controlling display of the image in the display step;
a main object setting step of setting the target based on the image signal outputted from the image pickup section;
a zoom control step of performing zooming with respect to the target;
an ideal image creation step of creating a plurality of pieces of ideal image data that represent ideal images in each of which a main object is positioned substantially at a center of a field of view of a viewfinder and which correspond to arbitrary timings during continuous change in an angle of view due to zooming, based on image data acquired in a focus region of the photographing optical system on a short focus side before execution of zooming in the zoom control step; and
an image comparison step of comparing the ideal images created in the ideal image creation step and the output images based on pieces of image data sequentially outputted from the image pickup section,
wherein, in the display control step, auxiliary displaying for clearly indicating a position of the target set in the main object setting step is performed such that the auxiliary displaying is superimposed on the image displayed in the display step,
in the image comparison st

Assignees

• Olympus Corp
• Olympus Imaging Corp

Inventors

• Shintani Koichi
• Homma Shinsuke
• Matsuhashi Takayuki
• Tabata Takehiko

Classifications

• H04N23/635 Primary

  Region indicators; Field of view indicators · CPC title

• H04N23/69

  Control of means for changing angle of the field of view, e.g. optical zoom objectives or electronic zooming · CPC title

• H04N23/61 Primary

  based on recognised objects · CPC title

• H04N23/611

  where the recognised objects include parts of the human body · CPC title

• H04N5/23219

  Electricity · mapped topic