Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryuichi Kobayashi

Masaharu Kawamura

Yoshihito Harada

Tsunemasa Ohara

Yoichi Tosaka

Masayuki Suzuki

Masayoshi Kiuchi

Hidehiko Fukahori

Hiroyuki Kataoka

Kenichiro Amano

Masao Kato

Kenji Takahashi

Yoshiro Udagawa

Tsuyoshi Fukuda

Kenji Yokoyama

Nobuo Onuma

Toshiyuki Kumakura

Futoshi Sasaki

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Toshio Matsumoto

Akira Akashi

Kenji Kyuma

Tetsuya Nishio

Ruriko Mikami

Toshifumi Ohsawa

Tatsuo Konno

Hiroshi Matsushima

Yutaka Yamamoto

Akinori Horiuchi

Emi Kondo

Kazuhiko Arakawa

Toshiaki Ueguri

Jun Terashima

An image pickup control apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an instruction unit configured to instruct an image pickup unit to shoot an image in accordance with an operation of a photographer, a first display processing unit configured to display the image shot by the image pickup unit in accordance with an instruction by the instruction unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information input by the photographer with respect to the image displayed by the first display processing unit, a second display processing unit configured to display options based on the position information obtained by the obtaining unit, and an assistance unit configured to perform an assistance for next shooting based on an option selected by the photographer from among the options displayed by the second display processing unit.

Image pickup control apparatus, control method therefor, and recording medium

According to a print system, a printer supplies function information of the printer to a DSC based on a communication link between the DSC and the printer, and the DSC establishes a UI based on the supplied function information to display it on the DSC. The DSC converts image data of an image file according to print conditions set up based on the UI and the function information of the printer and transmits the converted image file to the printer.

Image supply device and control method thereof and printing system

Improvement of printing speed is set out in an image processing apparatus, which is connected communicably with a printing apparatus, for transferring a recorded image to the printing apparatus and having the printing apparatus print the image. To achieve this object, the present invention has the following configuration. Namely, the invention provides an image processing method of an image capturing apparatus, communicably connected with a printing apparatus which prints transmitted image data. The image processing method comprises: a receiving step (step S, S) of receiving information regarding a printing condition of the printing apparatus for printing the transmitted image data; a processing step (step S, S) of processing image data to be transmitted to the printing apparatus based on the information regarding the printing condition received in the receiving step; and a transmitting step (step S) of transmitting the image data processed in the processing step to the printing apparatus.

Printing system, printing method, image capturing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program

In an image pickup apparatus comprising an optical finder for optically displaying an object image, an image pickup device for receiving the object image and converting it into an image signal for photographing, an electronic finder for displaying the object image received by the image pickup device on the basis of the image signal converted by the image pickup device, a focal plane shutter for shielding the image pickup device from light, and a beam guide device for guiding a beam from the object to the optical finder and the image pickup device, and a control method and a control program applied to the image pickup apparatus, the beam from the object guided by the beam guide device is changed over from the optical finder to the image pickup device and the focal plane shutter is rendered into its opened state so that before photographing, the image pickup device can receive the object image displayed by the electronic finder.

Image pickup apparatus

In a camera system arranged to communicate data between a camera and an accessory mounted on the camera in synchronism with a clock signal, the lens communicates data to the camera by a first communication method (an open drain method), and, if it is determined as a result of the data communication that the lens mounted on the camera is a lens suited for high-speed communication, the first communication method is switched to a second communication method suited for high-speed communication, so that communication can be performed at a high speed.

System for communication between camera and accessory

A camera having an autofocus apparatus for multi-spot focus detection. Particularly, a camera is provided in such an arrangement that selection operation members for selecting an arbitrary area from a plurality of focus detection areas by a manual operation are provided at positions where a photographer can operate it readily with a finger while holding the camera in a lateral posture or in a vertical posture and that selection information selected through one operation member out of the above two operation members depending upon a holding condition of the camera, is validated, thereby improving the operability.

Camera having autofocus apparatus

The present invention relates to a flash photographing system for, in a case where the same subject of the photographing operation is repeatedly flash-photographed, performing an automatic bracket photographing operation such that the quantity of flash light to be emitted at each operation is sequentially shifted by a predetermined quantity. According to the present invention, there is provided a system of the foregoing type having a structure such that previous light emission is performed to receive light reflected from an object, and the quantity of emitted light received until the quantity of reflected light reaches a predetermined value is stored as a reference light quantity. When the quantity of light to be emitted in each main light emission operation is controlled, the quantity of light in each main light emission operation is monitored so as to subject the monitored quantity of light and the reference data to a comparison. Thus, the quantities of light to be emitted in the main light emission operation are controlled in accordance with data about the quantities of light respectively shifted from said reference quantity of light by predetermined quantities.

Flash photographing system

A camera includes a display device for displaying a time period extending from a time when a red-eye phenomenon preventing light is emitted to a time when a red-eye phenomenon preventing exposure operation can be performed, changing a display form.

Camera provided with red-eye phenomenon preventing feature

A camera with a built-in or removable, zoom flash unit having an illumination angle that varies automatically in accordance with the focal length of a photographic zoom lens that is attached to the camera. The camera inhibits the shutter release until the illumination angle of the zoom flash unit has reached a value corresponding with the focal length selected for the zoom lens.

Camera having a zoom flash unit

A camera includes a signal input circuit mounted in a back cover, a processing circuit receptive of signals from the signal input circuit for processing camera information, a control circuit operating with selection of exposure modes, and a circuit for changing over kinds of camera information to be input by the signal input circuit in accordance with the selected one of the modes.

Camera

A camera having a red-eye phenomenon preventing emission device, the camera comprising, a shutter having a leading curtain and a trailing curtain, a flash unit capable of flashing in a range of time between immediately after a completion of a running of the leading curtain to immediately before a start of a running of the trailing curtain, and emission control means which disables the red-eye phenomenon preventing emission device when the flash unit is set for flashing immediately before the start of a running of the trailing curtain.

A camera has an arrangement which includes a strobe as a built-in part or to which the strobe can be detachably secured, the strobe being arranged to move to up and down positions. The camera is provided with a strobe operating device for moving the strobe from the up position to the down position, a selecting switch for selecting single shooting and continuous shooting, and a controlling arrangement. The controlling arrangement actuates the strobe operating device to move the strobe to the down position after the completion of photography when the single shooting is selected by the selecting switch. When the continuous shooting is selected by the selecting means and while the camera is continuing a photographic operation, the controlling means maintains the strobe at the up position without actuating the strobe operating means even after the completion of photography.

A camera with an auto-focus device and having a first mode for causing the auto-focus device to perform focusing upon operation of a second operating member independently of a release operation member and a second mode for causing the auto-focus device to perform focusing upon operation of the release operation member and interrupting focusing of the auto-focus device upon operation of the second operation member.

Camera having auto-focus device

A camera employing a multi-photometric method of repeatedly performing a light measuring operation every time an operation member is operated to determine an exposure value on the basis of every measured value of light thus obtained is arranged to display the value of light measured by each of performances of the multiple light measuring operation in such a mark that indicates which of the performances is represented by the display mark.

A power focus device in a camera has a manually rotatively operated focus ring, a lens driving drive source for driving a focusing lens, and a pulse generating device operatively associated with the rotation of the focus ring to generate a pulse signal conforming to the amount of rotation of the focus ring. A focus ring rotation direction detecting device detects the direction of rotation of the focus ring from the pulse signal, a focus ring rotation amount detecting device detects the amount of rotation of the focus ring from the pulse signal, and a drive direction setting device sets the direction of drive of the lens driving drive source on the basis of the result of the detection in the focus ring rotation direction detecting device. A drive amount setting device memorizes the result of the detection in the focus ring rotation amount detecting device and sets the memorized value as the amount of drive of the lens driving drive source. A drive source control device control the lens driving drive source in accordance with the direction of drive set in the drive direction setting device and the amount of drive set in the drive amount setting device. A reversing device immediately reverses the lens driving drive source, changes the setting in the drive direction setting device, returns the drive amount setting device to its initial state, and immediately reverses the lens driving drive source when the focus ring has been rotatively operated in a direction to drive the lens driving drive source in a second direction when the lens driving drive source is being driven in a first direction.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ryuichi Kobayashi