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US 10,455,136 B2Granted
Information processing to indicate focusable areas in an image
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorAkifumi Mizukami
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Abstract
There is provided an information processing system comprising: circuitry configured to acquire information indicating whether at least one of plurality of areas included in a captured image captured by a capturing device are focusable; and to issue a signal to control a display to display first information indicating whether each of the plurality of areas are focusable.
Claims24
An information processing system, comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- determine whether each area of a plurality of areas included in an image is focusable with respect to a driving range of a focus lens of a capturing device, wherein the image is captured through the focus lens of the capturing device, and the determination is based on phase difference information obtained for each area of the plurality of areas in the image;
- and
- control a display screen to:
- display the plurality of areas prior to an operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the plurality of areas comprises a plurality of special auto focus (AF) areas and a plurality of image surface AF areas;
- display focusable area information prior to the operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the focusable area information indicates that each area of the plurality of areas is focusable;
- hide each of the plurality of image surface AF areas based on a start of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- display an image surface AF area of the plurality of hidden image surface AF areas based on completion of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- and
- display a first frame of a first color in one of the plurality of special AF areas concurrently with a second frame of a second color in the displayed image surface AF area, wherein the display of the first frame of the first color and the second frame of the second color indicates the completion of the operation to drive the focus lens.
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An information processing method, comprising:
- in an information processing system:
- determining whether each area of a plurality of areas included in an image is focusable with respect to a driving range of a focus lens of a capturing device, wherein the image is captured through the focus lens of the capturing device, and the determination is based on phase difference information obtained for each area of the plurality of areas in the image;
- and
- controlling a display screen to:
- display the plurality of areas prior to an operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the plurality of areas comprises a plurality of special auto focus (AF) areas and a plurality of image surface AF areas;
- display focusable area information prior to the operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the focusable area information indicates that each area of the plurality of areas is focusable;
- hide each of the plurality of image surface AF areas based on a start of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- display an image surface AF area of the plurality of hidden image surface AF areas based on completion of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- and
- display a first frame of a first color in one of the plurality of special AF areas concurrently with a second frame of a second color in the displayed image surface AF area, wherein the display of the first frame of the first color and the second frame of the second color indicates the completion of the operation to drive the focus lens.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute operations, the operations comprising:
- determining whether each area of a plurality of areas included in an image is focusable with respect to a driving range of a focus lens of a capturing device, wherein the image is captured through the focus lens of the capturing device, and the determination is based on phase difference information obtained for each area of the plurality of areas in the image;
- and
- controlling a display screen to:
- display the plurality of areas prior to an operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the plurality of areas comprises a plurality of special auto focus (AF) areas and a plurality of image surface AF areas;
- display focusable area information prior to the operation to drive the focus lens, wherein the focusable area information indicates that each area of the plurality of areas is focusable;
- hide each of the plurality of image surface AF areas based on a start of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- display an image surface AF area of the plurality of hidden image surface AF areas based on completion of the operation to drive the focus lens;
- and
- display a first frame of a first color in one of the plurality of special AF areas concurrently with a second frame of a second color in the displayed image surface AF area, wherein the display of the first frame of the first color and the second frame of the second color indicates the completion of the operation to drive the focus lens.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.