Olympus Corporation

Kyoichi Numajiri

Kazuhiro Sato

Naoki Fujii

Kensei Ito

Sachie Yamamoto

Osamu Nonaka

Tomomi Kaminaga

Tetsuya Matsushita

A photographing apparatus includes a photographing module, an image processor, a line-of-sight direction determination module, a main subject determination module, and an emphasis processor. The line-of-sight direction determination module determines a line-of-sight direction of the photographer by comparing with the reference line-of-sight direction of the photographer in the image data acquired by the image processor. The main subject determination module determines a main subject to be photographed by the photographer, based on the line-of-sight direction determined by the line-of-sight direction determination module. The emphasis processor executes an emphasis process on the main subject determined by the main subject determination module.

Photographing apparatus, photographing method and computer-readable storage medium storing photographing program of photographing apparatus

A display device comprises a display, a display control circuit for causing operation screens, for selection of setting items to be used from among a plurality of provided setting items, to be displayed on the display, and causing switching from the operation screen to another operation screen to be displayed, and an operation member for operating in order to switch from the operation screen to another operation screen, wherein the display control circuit causes display of change in display appearance of the setting items, when there is a switch from the operation screen to another operation screen.

Display device and display method

A display control apparatus includes a display control unit that displays, on a screen, a setting item list for setting a condition of an appliance, and further displays, for a designated item designated in the setting item list, an option row for selecting a specific condition in the designated item, and a selection operation guide for selecting an option from options arranged in the option row. The display control unit separates the option row and the selection operation guide, displays the option row and the selection operation guide by superposing them on the setting item list, and further displays an option selected in accordance with a touch operation performed on the selection operation guide so as to be identifiable in the option row.

Display control apparatus

An imaging method includes photographing a subject to acquire image data, determining a pointing motion performed by a photographer included in the subject based on the image data, and outputting an instruction signal corresponding to the motion. The method further includes performing the photographing more than once to acquire image data based on the instruction signal, and creating a composite image based on the image data obtained by the performing the photographing more than once and the instruction signal.

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Kyoichi Numajiri