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Granted Patent B2
US 10,277,801 · App. 15/869,791 · Granted Apr 30, 2019

Image capture device

Inventors: Tomohiro Oogami (Nara, JP); Mitsuyoshi Okamoto (Osaka, JP); Kohei Fukugawa (Osaka, JP); Koji Shibuno (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
H04N5/23212G02B7/36G02B7/38G03B13/36H04N5/232H04N5/2356H04N5/23216
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Patent No.
US 10,277,801
App. No.
15/869,791
Granted
Apr 30, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The image capture device includes an optical system including a focus lens, a CCD that captures a subject image input via the optical system and generates an image signal, an image processor that generates image data by performing predetermined processing on the image signal generated by the CCD, and a controller. The controller performs a scan operation for detecting a focus position for each of a plurality of partial regions of image data while moving the focus lens and records a moving image by moving the focus lens while switching a moving speed of the focus lens based on information on the focus position obtained for each of the plurality of partial regions as a result of the scan operation. The plurality of partial regions is a plurality of regions obtained by dividing an image region of the image data.

Claims (31)

1. An image capture device comprising:

an optical system including a focus lens;

an image sensor that captures a subject image input via the optical system and generates an image signal;

an image processor that generates image data by performing predetermined processing on the image signal generated by the imaging unit; and

a controller that controls the image sensor and the image processor,

wherein

the controller performs a scan operation for detecting a focus position for each of a plurality of partial regions of the image data while moving the focus lens and records a moving image by moving the focus lens while switching a moving speed of the focus lens based on information on the focus position obtained for each of the plurality of partial regions as a result of the scan operation,

the plurality of partial regions is a plurality of regions obtained by dividing an image region of the image data, and

the controller moves the focus lens between a focus position closest to a near end and a focus position closest to an infinity end and records the moving image while moving the focus lens at a higher speed between adjacent focus positions that are spaced away from each other by a predetermined distance than a speed between adjacent focus positions that are spaced away from each other by less than the predetermined distance.

2. The image capture device according to claim 1 , further comprising

an operation unit operated by a user,

wherein

the operation unit receives user's designation of a region on the image, and

the controller extracts a frame image focused on the region designated by the user from among a plurality of frame images that constitutes the recorded moving image and generates a still image.

3. The image capture device according to claim 2 , wherein

the controller records the still image in a predetermined recording medium.

4. An image capture device comprising:

an optical system including a focus lens;

an image sensor that captures a subject image input via the optical system and generates an image signal;

an image processor that generates image data by performing predetermined processing on the image signal generated by the imaging unit; and

a controller that controls the image sensor and the image processor,

wherein

the controller performs a scan operation for detecting a focus position for each of a plurality of partial regions of the image data while moving the focus lens and records a moving image by moving the focus lens while switching a moving speed of the focus lens based on information on the focus position obtained for each of the plurality of partial regions as a result of the scan operation, and

the plurality of partial regions is a plurality of regions obtained by dividing an image region of the image data, and

further comprising

an operation unit operated by a user,

wherein

the operation unit receives user's designation of a region on the image, and

the controller extracts a frame image focused on the region designated by the user from among a plurality of frame images that constitutes the recorded moving image and generates a still image.

5. The image capture device according to claim 4 , wherein

the controller records the still image in a predetermined recording medium.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 5, 2018
From: OOGAMI, TOMOHIRO; OKAMOTO, MITSUYOSHI; FUKUGAWA, KOHEI; SHIBUNO, KOJI
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 045101/0109 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-198146 · Oct 6, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2016004413 · Sep 30, 2016
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