IP Library Granted Patent US 9,955,066
Granted Patent B2
US 9,955,066 · App. 15/165,746 · Granted Apr 24, 2018

Imaging apparatus and control method of imaging apparatus

Inventors: Akira Ugawa (Tokyo, JP); Tatsuyuki Uemura (Hachioji, JP); Osamu Nonaka (Sagamihara, JP)
Assignee: Olympus Corporation
H04N5/23216H04N5/23293H04N5/2254
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Patent No.
US 9,955,066
App. No.
15/165,746
Granted
Apr 24, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit which acquires image data by an imaging lens forming an image of an object on an imaging surface on which imaging pixels are arrayed; a designated position acquiring unit which acquires a designated position on the image data; a sighting device which allows a user to visually recognize an optical axial direction of the imaging lens; and a controller which, on the image data, adjusts a position of an object on an imaging optical axis of the imaging lens, based on the designated position.

Claims (11)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging device which acquires image data based on an image of an object formed on an imaging surface, on which imaging pixels are arrayed, by an imaging lens which is capable of changing a focal distance;

a display panel which displays the image data;

a touch sensor which detects a touch position on the display panel;

a sighting device which allows a user to visually recognize an optical axial direction of the imaging lens; and

a CPU which, on the image data, adjusts a position of an object on an imaging optical axis of the imaging lens, based on the touch position,

wherein the CPU:

changes a focal distance of the imaging lens to a wide angle side in accordance with the touch position; and

arranges the object on the optical axis of the imaging lens at the touch position by shifting the effective imaging region indicating a range in which the image data in the imaging surface is to be acquired in accordance with the difference between the touch position and the imaging optical axis of the imaging lens.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the CPU cuts out the image data in accordance with the touch position.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the CPU shifts the imaging surface in accordance with the touch position, and moves the effective imaging region on the imaging surface by the shift unit in accordance with the difference between the touch position and the imaging optical axis of the imaging lens.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 1, 2021
From: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
To: OM DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058294/0274 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 26, 2016
From: UGAWA, AKIRA; UEMURA, TATSUYUKI; NONAKA, OSAMU
To: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 038731/0813 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-109989 · May 29, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20160353013A1 · Dec 1, 2016