Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomohiro Hirama

Hidetaka Uemura

Michinori Nakajima

Takumi Tosaki

An image capturing apparatus comprises: an operation member used to move a position of focus lens included in an attached optical system; a recording unit that records the position of the focus lens as an index value in a memory in association with information of the attached optical system including the focus lens in response to a registration instruction; an acquisition unit that acquires information for identifying the attached optical system; a readout unit that, if there is an index value recorded in association with the information of the attached optical system corresponding to the information acquired by the acquisition unit, reads out the index value from the memory; and a control unit that controls a display device to display the read index value and a current position of the focus lens.

Image capturing apparatus, assisting method for focus control, and storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit for acquiring an image obtained by an image capturing apparatus including an image sensor for capturing a light beam from a subject through an optical lens, and a generation unit for generating first subject distance information indicating a distance from the image capturing apparatus to the subject based on information corresponding to an entrance pupil position of the optical lens used to capture the image, a focus position, and second subject distance information indicating a distance from the image sensor to the subject.

Image processing apparatus and control method therefor

An image blur correction apparatus comprises an obtainment unit configured to obtain shake information; a plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units including a first image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among a plurality of continuous images, and a second image blur correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate image blur correction amounts that respectively correspond to partial images included among the plurality of continuous images with use of a method different from a method used by the first correction amount calculation unit; and control unit configured to control the plurality of image blur correction amount calculation units.

Image blur correction apparatus, control method therefor, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium

An image capturing apparatus comprises an angular velocity detection sensor that detects an angular velocity, an acceleration detection sensor that detects an acceleration, a motion vector detection unit that detects a motion vector on the basis of an image captured by the image capturing apparatus; and a calculation unit that calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of a detection value from the angular velocity detection sensor, a detection value from the acceleration detection sensor, and a detection value from the motion vector detection unit, wherein the calculation unit corrects an output of the angular velocity detection sensor using the detection value obtained by the motion vector detection unit, and calculates an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus on the basis of the corrected value.

Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and orientation angle calculation apparatus for estimating orientation of image capturing apparatus

An image stabilization apparatus comprises a calculation unit configured to, based on a detection result of shake detection unit for detecting a shake of an image capturing apparatus, calculates an image blur correction amount for correcting an image blur by changing a relative position of a subject image and the image capturing element, wherein the calculation unit, based on information of an imaging lens that is used when capturing a captured image, calculates the image blur correction amount at a different scaling factor for each of a plurality of axes of a two-dimensional plane of the captured image.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tomohiro Hirama