IP Library Granted Patent US 12,022,193
Granted Patent B2
US 12,022,193 · App. 18/153,353 · Granted Jun 25, 2024

Imaging apparatus and operation method thereof

Inventors: Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, JP); Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, JP); Junya Kitagawa (Saitama, JP); Yuya Nishio (Saitama, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
H04N23/683H04N23/667H04N23/6812H04N23/687
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Patent No.
US 12,022,193
App. No.
18/153,353
Granted
Jun 25, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The imaging apparatus includes an imaging sensor, a detection sensor that detects rotational shake in the roll direction, a mechanical vibration-proof mechanism that corrects rotational shake, and a processor. The processor is configured to execute: mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism; electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake; driving processing of driving the imaging sensor in one mode selected from a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a motion picture is captured at a first frame rate and a second mode in which a motion picture is captured at a second frame rate; and correction distribution processing of distributing correction of a part of the rotational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and correction of a part of the rotational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing.

Claims (64)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging sensor;

a detection sensor that detects rotational shake, which is delivered to a body that accommodates the imaging sensor, in a roll direction;

a mechanical vibration-proof mechanism that corrects the rotational shake by rotatably holding the imaging sensor in the roll direction and rotating the imaging sensor; and

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to execute:

mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism;

electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake;

driving processing of driving the imaging sensor in one mode selected from a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a motion picture is captured at a first frame rate and a second mode in which a motion picture is captured at a second frame rate different from the first frame rate; and

correction distribution processing of distributing correction of a part of the rotational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and correction of a part of the rotational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing, and

in the correction distribution processing, the processor causes a correction distribution ratio between the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing to be different in the first mode and the second mode.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the second frame rate is higher than the first frame rate, and

in the correction distribution processing, the processor causes a correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing in the second mode to be smaller than a correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing in the first mode.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processor sets the correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing in the second mode to 0.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

separate the rotational shake into a first frequency component and a second frequency component having a frequency higher than a frequency of the first frequency component;

distribute correction of a first component, which is obtained by multiplying the first frequency component by a coefficient α (0<α<1) corresponding to the correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing, by the electronic vibration-proof processing, in the first mode; and

distribute a second component, which is obtained by adding a component obtained by multiplying the first frequency component by (1−α) to the second frequency component, by the mechanical vibration-proof processing.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

determine the correction distribution ratio by acquiring the coefficient α, which corresponds to a frame rate in the mode in which the imaging sensor is driven, with reference to a look-up table in which a relationship between the frame rate and the coefficient α is recorded.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the coefficient α is different depending on a resolution of an image signal.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein a lens is mountable on the body, and

the coefficient α is different depending on presence or absence of an optical shake correction function of the lens mounted on the body or a zoom magnification.

8. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

change a recording region, which is selected from an inside of an imaging region of the imaging sensor between a plurality of frames, in the electronic vibration-proof processing; and

cause the recording region in the second mode to be larger than the recording region in the first mode.

9. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism holds the imaging sensor such that the imaging sensor is translatable in an intersection direction intersecting a rotation axis in the roll direction,

the detection sensor detects translational shake, which is delivered to the body, in the intersection direction, and

the processor is configured to:

correct the rotational shake and the translational shake by rotating and translating the imaging sensor, in the mechanical vibration-proof processing;

correct the rotational shake and the translational shake, in the electronic vibration-proof processing; and

distribute correction of a part of the rotational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and distribute correction of a part of the rotational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing, and distribute correction of a part of the translational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and distribute correction of a part of the translational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing, in the correction distribution processing.

10. The imaging apparatus according to claim 9 ,

wherein the detection sensor detects at least one angular shake around an axis intersecting the rotation axis in addition to the rotational shake and the translational shake, and

in the correction distribution processing, in a case where a shake obtained by adding the angular shake to the translational shake is set as a total shake, the processor distributes correction of a part of the total shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and distributes correction of a part of the total shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing.

11. The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

execute a third mode in which the motion picture of the first frame rate is generated by synthesizing a plurality of frames imaged at the second frame rate, in the driving processing; and

correct the translational shake for the plurality of frames imaged at the second frame rate and correct the rotational shake for a synthetic frame in which the plurality of frames are synthesized, in the electronic vibration-proof processing.

12. The imaging apparatus according to claim 9 ,

wherein in the first mode or the second mode, the correction distribution ratio of the translational shake is different from the correction distribution ratio of the rotational shake.

13. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

switch to the second mode on the basis of an instruction from a user during motion picture imaging in the first mode, in the driving processing; and

set the correction distribution ratio for the rotational shake of the electronic vibration-proof processing to 0 in a case where the switching to the second mode is performed, in the correction distribution processing.

14. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein in the correction distribution processing, the processor determines the correction distribution ratio in live view imaging before motion picture imaging on the basis of a frame rate of the mode executed after the live view imaging.

15. An operation method of an imaging apparatus including

an imaging sensor,

a detection sensor that detects rotational shake, which is delivered to a body that accommodates the imaging sensor, in a roll direction, and

a mechanical vibration-proof mechanism that corrects the rotational shake by rotatably holding the imaging sensor in the roll direction and rotating the imaging sensor,

the operation method of the imaging apparatus comprising executing:

mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism;

electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake;

driving processing of driving the imaging sensor in one mode selected from a plurality of modes including a first mode in which a motion picture is captured at a first frame rate and a second mode in which a motion picture is captured at a second frame rate higher than the first frame rate; and

correction distribution processing of distributing correction of a part of the rotational shake to the mechanical vibration-proof processing and distributing correction of a part of the rotational shake to the electronic vibration-proof processing, and correction distribution processing of causing a correction distribution ratio between the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing to be different in the first mode and the second mode.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 12, 2023
From: TANAKA, KOICHI; KAWAI, TOMOYUKI; KITAGAWA, JUNYA; NISHIO, YUYA
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 062365/0506 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-130630 · Jul 31, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2021024465 · Jun 29, 2021
Related Publication 20230171494A1 · Jun 1, 2023
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