Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Hitachi, Ltd.

Nobushige Wakamatsu

Yusuke Shimizu

Yuki Tsuihiji

Shinnosuke Osawa

Ryota Ogawa

Sosuke Kagaya

Ryusuke Hirao

Ryosuke Tsuji

Katsuhiro Ito

Takahide Kobayashi

Hidetoshi Abe

Koki Nikaido

An image pickup apparatus is configured to change a shooting process based on data on a shot image. The image pickup apparatus is configured to, when the image pickup apparatus changes the shooting process, assign greater weights to the data on the shot image based on an instruction from a user than to the data on the shot image automatically processed.

Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor

An image pickup apparatus capable of performing automatic shooting suitable for a subject moving a lot. The apparatus includes an image pickup portion configured to output an image of a subject formed by an image pickup optical system, and a drive portion configured to rotate the image pickup portion about an axis. In the apparatus, one or more controllers detects a specific subject in the image, detects motion vectors in the image, and detects a moving subject in the image based on the vectors, wherein the specific or moving subject is determined as a subject to be shot, and based on motion information on the that subject, adjusting composition and tracking of that subject is performed.

Image pickup apparatus that performs automatic shooting, control method therefor, and storage medium

A driving apparatus includes a rotation driving unit configured to rotationally drive a movable portion of an image pickup apparatus, a state detecting unit configured to detect a state of the image pickup apparatus, and a controlling unit configured to determine whether or not to perform an initialization operation by the rotation driving unit. The controlling unit determines whether or not to perform the initialization operation based on at least one of a change in the state of the image pickup apparatus during a system off and a change in the state of the image pickup apparatus between at a time of a system shutdown and at a time of a system startup, each change being acquired from an output signal from the state detecting unit.

Driving apparatus, image pickup apparatus, controlling method for driving apparatus, and memory medium

An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capture device configured to capture an object image, a rotation device capable of rotating the image capture device, a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first rotation amount of the rotation unit for correcting image blur based on shaking of the image capturing apparatus, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second rotation amount for searching for an object from an image captured by the image capture unit, and a stopping unit configured to stop the rotation unit in a case where the first rotation amount and the second rotation amount are both less than threshold values respectively set for the first rotation amount and the second rotation amount.

Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling same, storage medium

An image pickup apparatus capable of judging that the image pickup apparatus has fallen down unintentionally is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising a movable unit having an image pickup unit, a fixed unit configured to support the movable unit in a manner being relatively displaceable, a drive unit configured to drive the movable unit so as to be displaced relatively to the fixed unit, a first detector configured to detect an inclination angle of the image pickup apparatus, a second detector configured to detect movement of the image pickup apparatus, and a control unit configured to perform control at the time of falling down of the image pickup apparatus in accordance with the inclination angle detected by first detector and frequency information and amplitude information of the movement detected by the second detector.

Image pickup apparatus that drives movable unit so as to be displaced relatively to fixed unit, electronic apparatus that drives movable unit so as to be displaced relatively to fixed unit, and control methods therefor

An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses, at least one of information about designation of a subject by a user, information about automatic subject detection, and information about a manual operation on an image capturing lens by the user, a determination unit configured to determine a main image capturing apparatus and a sub image capturing apparatus from among the plurality of image capturing apparatuses, based on the information received by the reception unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a result of the determination to the main image capturing apparatus and transmit subject information set in the main image capturing apparatus to the sub image capturing apparatus.

Information processing apparatus and control method therefor

A shooting control apparatus obtains image data from an imaging unit that obtains the image data based on light from an imaging optical system and then detects an object and an orientation of the detected object from the image data. The apparatus controls a shooting direction of the imaging unit by controlling rotational driving of the imaging unit so that a position of the object in a field of view of the imaging unit changes based on the orientation of the object. The apparatus controls the shooting direction, in a case where the object faces in a first direction, so that a distance between an edge of the field of view on a first direction side and the object to be greater than a distance therebetween in a case where the object faces forward.

Shooting control apparatus, image capture apparatus, and shooting control method

A shooting control apparatus obtains image data from an imaging unit that obtains the image data based on light from an imaging optical system, and detects an object from the image data. The apparatus controls rotational driving of the imaging unit and a zoom mechanism included in the imaging optical system based on a result of detection of the object by determining a target zoom position and a shooting direction of the imaging unit. The apparatus determines the target zoom position and the shooting direction so that the object falls within a partial region of a field of view of the imaging unit including a center of the field of view, based on a size and position of the object.

A control device includes: a correction control unit configured to acquire a blur detection signal detected by a blur detection unit to calculate a correction amount of an image blur and control an image blur correction unit configured to correct the image blur; a subject detection unit configured to detect a position of a subject in a photographed image and acquire position information of the subject in the photographed image; a tracking control unit configured to perform tracking control of the subject based on the position information of the subject acquired by the subject detection unit to; and a setting unit configured to set a control state of the tracking control unit. The setting unit sets the control state of the tracking control unit by selecting the set control state from a plurality of control states including a first state in which a tracking subject selectable mode is not set and a second state in which the mode is set and a tracking subject is not selected. The correction control unit acquires information on the control state selected by the setting unit and performs control to change characteristics of calculating the correction amount so that an image blur correction effect in the second state is higher than an image blur correction effect in the first state.

Control device and imaging apparatus

A subject tracking apparatus is configured to track a subject in continuously obtained photographic images. In the photographic image, a position of the subject in the photographic image and reliability that represents subject probability are obtained. The position of the subject to a target position in the photographic image is moved a tracking state of the subject is changed on a basis of the reliability.

Method and apparatus for tracking a moving subject image based on reliability of the tracking state

A control device configured to track a subject by controlling a correcting lens so that the subject is moved to a target position of a photographed image. The control device performs feedback control so that a difference between a position of the subject and a target position of the subject in the photographed image becomes small. The control device detects a photographing condition and changes a degree of tracking of the subject by changing a control gain in the feedback control based on the detected photographing condition.

Control device, apparatus, and control method for tracking correction based on multiple calculated control gains

An image stabilization apparatus including a supporting unit that supports an image capturing unit, a rotation unit that rotates the supporting unit, a calculation unit that calculates a residual correction amount of image blur after image blur correction is performed by a first image blur correction unit, a second image blur correction unit that corrects the residual correction amount of image blur using a method different from that of the first image blur correction unit, and a change unit that changes allocation between a correctable range of the second image blur correction unit correcting image blur in a horizontal or vertical direction on the imaging plane and a correctable range of the second image blur correction unit, based on a rotation angle of the rotation unit and the residual correction amount of image blur.

Image stabilization apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

A search apparatus includes a division unit configured to perform division into areas for respective angle regions in space coordinates with an imaging apparatus set as an origin thereof, a calculation unit configured to calculate an importance level of a subject for each of the areas obtained by division, and a changing unit configured to change a center position of a field angle of a captured image in which to search for a subject based on the importance level of a subject calculated for each of the areas.

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Nobushige Wakamatsu