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Granted Patent B2
US 11,653,094 · App. 17/693,018 · Granted May 16, 2023

Imaging apparatus with shaking state information display

Inventor: Mikio Sakurai (Osaka, JP)
Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
H04N23/6811H04N23/632
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Patent No.
US 11,653,094
App. No.
17/693,018
Granted
May 16, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; a controller that controls an image shooting operation, based on image data resulting from a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor, the image shooting operation generating image data indicating a synthetic image into which a plurality of captured images is synthesized; a shake detector that detects a shaking state of the imaging apparatus; and a display that displays information, wherein the controller controls the display to display shaking state information including a plurality of shaking states detected by the shake detector during the plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.

Claims (18)

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data;

a controller that controls an image shooting operation, based on image data resulting from a plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor, the image shooting operation generating image data indicating a synthetic image into which a plurality of captured images is synthesized;

a shake detector that detects a shaking state of the imaging apparatus; and

a display that displays information,

wherein the controller controls the display to display shaking state information including a plurality of shaking states detected by the shake detector during the plurality of times of imaging by the image sensor in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image, by displaying, for each time of imaging among the plurality of times of imaging, a shaking state separately in the shaking state information.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the display to display the shaking state information with one discrete pointer being plotted in accordance with a shaking state per one exposure period for each time of imaging in the plurality of times of imaging.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein

the shaking state information further includes a reference area indicating a reference of the shaking state, and

the controller controls the displayed shaking state information on the display to plot the pointer in the reference area in accordance with the shaking state for each time of imaging in the plurality of times of imaging.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the shaking state information includes a preview image captured before the image shooting operation for the synthetic image, and

the controller controls the display to move the preview image in accordance with the shaking state in the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the controller controls the display to gradually erase a past shaking state in the shaking state included in the displayed shaking state information during the image shooting operation for the synthetic image.

6. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein based on the image data resulting from the plurality of times of imaging, the controller synthesizes the plurality of captured images having positional deviations from each other, to generate image data indicating the synthetic image.

7. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising

an image stabilizer that drives the image sensor, based on a result of the detection by the shake detector, to perform image stabilization,

wherein the controller acquires a shaking state stabilized by the image stabilizer and causes the display to display the shaking state information in accordance with the acquired shaking state.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2022
From: SAKURAI, MIKIO
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 060115/0692 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2021-046516 · Mar 19, 2021 · national
Continuity (1)
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