Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Akari Hayashi

Koichi Ito

Takashi Kawakami

Mineo Uchida

Tohru Ishibashi

Nobuyuki Furukawa

Emi Kondo

Takuya Imaizumi

Takumi Ishikawa

Takuma Yamazaki

A wearable image pickup apparatus that eliminates manual change of an image pickup direction during picking up an image and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An image pickup apparatus includes an observation direction detection unit that is worn on a body other than a head of a user, an image pickup unit that is worn on the body of the user, a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect an observation direction of the user by the observation direction detection unit, pick up an image by the image pickup unit, and output an output image corresponding to the observation direction based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit.

Wearable image pickup apparatus, portable device and calibrator that communicate with image pickup apparatus, control methods therefor, and storage media storing control programs therefor

An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device capable of performing a plurality of charge accumulation operations within the same time period of a vertical synchronization signal. A follow-up control value and a first predicted control value which is more distant from a current control value than the follow-up control value in a direction of change are set based on a photometry result using the current control value. When at least one of proper differences between the follow-up control value and the first predicted control and respective photometric values obtained therewith is not larger than a predetermined allowable value, the photometric value associated therewith is determined as a proper exposure. The current control value is an initial value or one of the photometric values in a case where the proper differences are both larger than the predetermined allowable value.

Image capturing apparatus capable of obtaining proper exposure in short time, method of controlling same, and storage medium

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akari Hayashi