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US 10,122,957 B2Granted
Imaging apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKoji Oka
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus that records separately shot two images as one image file includes a clip image shooting mode that creates the one image file having one of the separately shot two images as a supplemental image of the other of the separately shot two images as a main image.
Claims16
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a sensor;
- a lens to receive light and to focus the light on the sensor;
- a display;
- and
- a controller which controls the imaging apparatus to perform:
- determining whether there exists input indicating whether the imaging apparatus is to operate in a second shooting mode;
- capturing, in a first shooting mode when there does not exist input indicating the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, a first image using the sensor and the lens, the first image being a main image;
- determining, when the input exists indicating that the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, whether an image has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode;
- displaying, when it has been determined that the image has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode exists, the image which has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode;
- capturing, in the second shooting mode when the input exists indicating that the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, a second image, using the sensor and the lens, the second image being different from the first image and the second image being a supplemental image of the main image;
- combining the first image and the second image into a single image file,
- wherein in the first shooting mode, if the second image is already captured, the first image and the second image are combined into the single image file.
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A method, comprising:
- determining whether there exists input indicating whether an imaging apparatus is to operate in a second shooting mode;
- determining, when the input exists indicating that the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, whether an image has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode;
- displaying, when it has been determined that the image has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode exists, the image which has been stored which was previously captured in the second shooting mode;
- obtaining, in the second shooting mode when the input exists indicating that the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, a second image as supplemental image data using an image sensor and a lens;
- obtaining, in a first shooting mode when the input does not exist indicating that the imaging apparatus is to operate in the second shooting mode, a first image as main image data using the image sensor and the lens;
- combining the supplemental image data and the main image data into a single image file, and recording the image file in a recording medium,
- wherein in the first shooting mode, if the second image is already captured, the first image and the second image are combined into the single image file.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.