Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Junichi Imamiya

Nobutaka Mizuno

Yumi Takao

Ryotaro Takahashi

An apparatus capable of visually indicates to a user whether or not execution of autofocusing at a set position is possible is provided. The apparatus includes a pickup device, and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit configured to function as a setting unit that sets a focus adjustment region, a detecting unit that detects a defocusing amount of an optical system, a determining unit that determines whether or not focus adjustment in the focus adjustment region is possible based on the defocusing amount, and a control unit that switches a display of a live view image between an unmagnification display and an enlargement display. The control unit varies a display method of the focus adjustment region between the unmagnification display and the enlargement display in accordance with to a determination result obtained by the determining unit.

Image pickup apparatus for setting position for performing enlargement display from entire image region, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium

An apparatus comprising a sensor capable of generating a signal pair used in focus detection. The apparatus obtains, based on a defocus amount obtained using the signal pair, a focus distance of a lens unit that is mounted to the apparatus and adjusts a focus distance of the lens unit based on the obtained focus distance. When the lens unit is a multi-scopic lens unit having a plurality of optical systems having different axes, the apparatus obtains the focus distance using an adjustment value obtained based on an axis position that is a position on the sensor through which an axis of the multi-scopic lens unit passes.

Apparatus and method executed by apparatus

An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor configured to be able to output an image capturing signal and a focus detection image signal, a focus detection unit configured to set, on a screen of the image sensor, a focus detection range, and to perform focus detection, in each of a plurality of focus detection frames in the focus detection range, and a focus adjustment unit configured to perform a focus adjustment, during a shooting preparation operation and a shooting operation, based on an output of the focus detection unit, for tracking a subject, wherein the focus detection unit makes the focus detection range during the shooting operation broader than the focus detection range during shooting preparation operation.

Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium

A display controller including: a display control unit configured to, in response to a first case, perform control so that an image is displayed in a display mode among a plurality of display modes wherein the first case is a case where a receiving unit has received a manual focus operation in a first state in which a display item indicating information on focus is not superimposed or displayed on a live-view image captured by an imaging unit and the live-view image is displayed with a first magnification wherein the plurality of display modes include: a first display mode in which the display item is superimposed and displayed on the live-view image without enlarging the live-view image from the first magnification; and a second display mode in which the live-view image is displayed with a second magnification larger than the first magnification.

Electronic apparatus capable of performing display control based on display mode, control method thereof, and non-transitory computer readable medium

In an image capturing apparatus, an image sensor outputs an image converted from light entering through a diaphragm, an acquisition unit acquires an aperture state of the diaphragm, a generator generates a first indicator indicating a focus state of the image, a controller superimposes the image and an indicator indicating a focus state of the image, and displays a resultant image on a display device, a memory stores the indicator displayed on the display device as a second indicator, and a selector selects the first indicator in a case where the aperture state at least at a time of exposure of the image or of generating the first indicator by the generator is changing, and selects the second indicator in a case where the aperture state at these times is not changing. The controller displays the selected indicator.

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Junichi Imamiya