IP Library Granted Patent US 10,306,144
Granted Patent B2
US 10,306,144 · App. 15/672,594 · Granted May 28, 2019

Image pickup device and image pickup method

Inventors: Takashi Ishihara (Kanagawa, JP); Kazutaka Yamamoto (Kanagawa, JP); Katsuyuki Ito (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: PANASONIC CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 10,306,144
App. No.
15/672,594
Granted
May 28, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image pickup device includes at least one camera, a display, and a touch panel that overlaps the display, and detects a touch operation in a first direction, a second direction substantially opposite to the first direction, a third direction, and a fourth direction substantially opposite to the third direction. The image pickup device has at least first and second imaging modes, in which the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera. Switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation in the first direction in the first imaging mode. Switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation in the second direction in the second imaging mode. In the first and second imaging modes, a setting is changed by a third touch operation in the third direction and a fourth touch operation in the fourth direction.

Claims (37)

1. An image pickup device comprising:

at least one camera;

a display; and

a touch panel that overlaps the display, and is capable of detecting a touch operation in a first direction and in a second direction, the first direction being substantially opposite to the second direction,

wherein the image pickup device has at least a first imaging mode, a second imaging mode and a third imaging mode,

in the first imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

in the second imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

in the third imaging mode, the display displays a video image being obtained by the at least one camera,

switching to the second imaging mode occurs by a first touch operation on the display in the first direction in the first imaging mode,

switching to the first imaging mode occurs by a second touch operation on the display in the second direction in the second imaging mode,

switching to the third imaging mode occurs by a third touch operation on the display in the first direction in the second imaging mode,

wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes effects having a monochrome; and

wherein the effects of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode are different from each other.

2. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the first touch operation, the second touch operation, and the third touch operation is a flick operation.

3. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein, in the first imaging mode, the display displays a processed video image being obtained by the at least one camera.

4. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first direction and the second direction are different by 160 degrees or more and 200 degrees or less.

5. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first direction and the second direction are different by 170 degrees or more and 190 degrees or less.

6. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first direction is a right direction, and the second direction is a left direction.

7. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first direction is a upward direction, and the second direction is a downward direction.

8. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the display has a rectangular shape, and

wherein the first direction is a direction away from a predetermined side of the rectangular shape.

9. The image pickup device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the touch panel overlaps substantially an entire surface of the display.

10. The image pickup device according to claim 9 ,

wherein an area of the display overlapping the touch panel is 90% or more and 100% or less of an area of the display.

11. The image pickup device according to claim 9 ,

wherein an area of the touch panel overlapping the display is 90% or more and 100% or less of an area of the touch panel.

12. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes a normal mode.

13. The image pickup device according to claim 1 , wherein one of the first imaging mode, the second imaging mode and the third imaging mode includes an effect mode in which a hue of the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed.

14. The image pickup device according to claim 13 , wherein the effect mode in which a hue of the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed is a sepia mode, in which the video image obtained by the at least one camera is changed to have a sepia hue.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 14, 2022
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 061932/0578 →
Priority Claims (4)
JP 2011-223175 · Oct 7, 2011 · national
JP 2011-228032 · Oct 17, 2011 · national
JP 2011-273522 · Dec 14, 2011 · national
JP 2012-018813 · Jan 31, 2012 · national
Continuity (6)
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