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Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 13, 2016
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Shibata, Tokyo, JP;

Tomohiro Sugaya, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 5/23254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23287 (2013.01);
Abstract

The zoom control apparatus configured to control an angle of view. The apparatus includes a motion acquirer configured to acquire a motion amount of an image capturing optical system, a calculator configured to calculate a displacement amount of a main object image in a captured image by using the motion amount of the image capturing optical system, a determiner configured to determine whether or not the displacement amount of the main object image is larger than a first threshold, and a controller configured to perform, when the displacement amount of the main object image is larger than the first threshold, control for making the angle of view wider than that for when the displacement amount of the main object image is smaller than the first threshold.


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