Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the image pickup apparatus, and recording medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakahiro Iwasaki
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a designation of an image pickup direction of an image pickup unit in relation to superimposition of a mask image on an picked-up image; and a setting unit configured to set, when the receiving unit receives the designation of the image pickup direction, a position of superimposition of the mask image in an image pickup range where the image pickup unit can pick up images, on the basis of the designated image pickup direction.
Claims9
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup unit capable of changing an image pickup direction to pick up an image;
- a memory to hold a plurality of video source configurations including a resolution of the picked-up image;
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- circuitry configured to:
- receive identification information for identifying a video source configuration and a mask position for setting a mask image to be displayed within the picked-up image;
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- set the mask position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked-up image on the basis of the video source configuration identified by the received identification information, the mask position of the mask image being set relative to a current image pickup direction of the image pickup unit.
An image pickup method of an image pickup apparatus capable of changing an image pickup direction to pick up an image, comprising:
- receiving identification information for identifying a video source configuration including a resolution of the picked-up image, wherein a plurality of video source configurations are stored in a memory of the image pickup apparatus, and
- receiving a mask position for setting a mask image to be displayed within the picked-up image;
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- setting the mask position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked-up image on the basis of the video source configuration identified by the received identification information, the mask position of the mask image being set relative to a current image pickup direction of the image pickup unit.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a computer program for an image pickup method of an image pickup apparatus capable of changing an image pickup direction to pick up an image, the method comprising:
- receiving identification information for identifying a video source configuration including a resolution of the picked-up image, wherein a plurality of video source configurations are stored in a memory of the image pickup apparatus, and
- receiving a mask position for setting a mask image to be displayed within the picked-up image;
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- setting the mask position of the mask image to be displayed on the picked-up image on the basis of the video source configuration identified by the received identification information, the mask position of the mask image being set relative to a current image pickup direction of the image pickup unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.