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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuyuki Furukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takuya Imaizumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Akari Hayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tohru Ishibashi, Tokyo, JP;
Emi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Takumi Ishikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Mineo Uchida, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuma Yamazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A wearable image pickup apparatus that eliminates manual change of an image pickup direction during picking up an image and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An image pickup apparatus includes an observation direction detection unit that is worn on a body other than a head of a user, an image pickup unit that is worn on the body of the user, a memory device that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to: detect an observation direction of the user by the observation direction detection unit, pick up an image by the image pickup unit, and output an output image corresponding to the observation direction based on the image picked up by the image pickup unit.