IP Library Granted Patent US 12,363,434
Granted Patent B2
US 12,363,434 · App. 18/668,240 · Granted Jul 15, 2025

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 12,363,434
App. No.
18/668,240
Granted
Jul 15, 2025
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 determine, based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake. The processor is then configured to execute the mechanical vibration-proof processing and 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;

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

a processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

determine based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake; and

execute the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing.

2. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the rotational shake is a shake delivered to the body in a roll direction.

3. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein higher the frame rate, smaller the processor sets the correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing.

4. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to determine the correction distribution ratio between the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing by referring to a look-up table in which a relationship between the frame rate and a coefficient α (0<α<1) corresponding to the correction distribution ratio of the electronic vibration-proof processing is recorded.

5. The imaging apparatus according to claim 4 ,

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;

assign correction of a first component, which is obtained by multiplying the first frequency component by the coefficient α to the electronic vibration-proof processing; and

assign 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, to the mechanical vibration-proof processing.

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

execute a control to change the recording region based on the frame rate.

9. The imaging apparatus according to claim 8 ,

wherein higher the frame rate, larger the processor sets the recording region.

10. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

the detection sensor detects translational shake, which is delivered to the body, in the intersection direction intersecting a rotation axis in the roll direction in addition to the rotational shake;

the mechanical vibration-proof processing corrects the translational shake in addition to the rotational shake; and

the electronic vibration-proof processing corrects the translational shake in addition to the rotational shake.

11. The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

generate by synthesizing a plurality of frames imaged, a motion picture having a lower frame rate than a frame rate of the imaged frames; and

correct the translational shake for the plurality of frames 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 11 ,

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

13. The imaging apparatus according to claim 11 ,

wherein the correction distribution ratio of the translational shake is different from the correction distribution ratio of the rotational shake.

14. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to:

be able to change the frame rate on the basis of an instruction from a user during motion picture imaging; and

set the correction distribution ratio for the rotational shake of the electronic vibration-proof processing to 0 in a case where the frame rate is changed from a lower frame rate to a higher frame rate.

15. The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 ,

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

16. 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, and

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

the operation method of the imaging apparatus comprising:

by a processor:

determining based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism based on a frame rate during motion picture imaging and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake; and

executing the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for operating 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, and

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

the program comprising instructions for a processor to:

determine based on a frame rate of motion picture imaging, a correction distribution ratio between mechanical vibration-proof processing using the mechanical vibration-proof mechanism based on a frame rate during motion picture imaging and electronic vibration-proof processing of correcting the rotational shake; and

execute the mechanical vibration-proof processing and the electronic vibration-proof processing.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-130630 · Jul 31, 2020 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 18153353 · Jan 12, 2023
Continuation PCTJP2021024465 · Jun 29, 2021
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