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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiro Hikida, Inagi, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23296 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23235 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image capture control apparatus for controlling the image capture direction of an image capture unit limits the control range of the image capture direction to part of a range where the image capture direction is changeable, and generates, based on the output of the image capture unit, an image having an aspect ratio selected from a plurality of aspect ratios.