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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2019
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hirotaka Ishikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Iwatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G02C 11/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2327 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02C 11/10 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 5/23222 (2013.01); H04N 5/23258 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a wearable device including an attachment unit, a motion sensor and a control unit. The attachment unit has a display and an imaging unit. The attachment unit is attachable to the user. The motion sensor is capable of detecting a spatial movement of the imaging unit. The control unit determines whether or not the imaging unit is in a predetermined resting state, based on an output of the motion sensor, and when the imaging unit is not in the predetermined resting state, limit a photographing operation of the imaging unit.