Imaging apparatus and imaging method
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsKatsuhisa Kawaguchi, Masaomi Tomizawa, Osamu Nonaka
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Abstract
An imaging device, comprising, an image sensor that acquires a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object at a first timing, a memory that stores the plurality of images, a second selection section that selects images at a second timing from among images stored in the memory, and a controller that has a movie candidate section that determines movie candidate frames from among the plurality of images in accordance with comparison results of images that have been selected or not selected at the second timing.
Claims20
An imaging device, comprising:
- an image sensor that acquires a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object;
- a temporary storage memory that stores images that have been acquired by the image sensor;
- a first operation member through which a user selects a specified image from the image sensor at a first time specified by a user operation of the first operation member;
- a second operation member through which a user selects an image at a second time, which is after the first time, from among images that have been stored in the temporary storage memory;
- and
- an image storage memory that stores a movie that has been generated based on a group of images that have been selected by the user using at least one of the first operation member and the second operation member,
- wherein the first time is a given period before and after a user instruction to acquire a still image, and
- wherein the second time is a time at which, after still image acquisition, an image that will be finally stored in the image storage memory is selected by the user from among a plurality of images that have been acquired using the image sensor.
An imaging device, comprising:
- an image sensor that acquires a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object at a first timing;
- a memory that stores the plurality of images;
- and
- a controller that has a second selection section through which a user selects images at a second timing from among images stored in the memory, and a movie candidate section that determines movie candidate frames from among the plurality of images in accordance with comparison results of images that have been selected or not selected at the second timing,
- wherein the first timing is a given period before and after a user instruction to acquire a still image, and
- wherein the second timing is a time at which, after still image acquisition, an image that will be finally stored is selected by the user from among a plurality of images that have been acquired using the image sensor.
An imaging method, comprising:
- acquiring a plurality of images by repeatedly shooting an object at a first timing;
- temporarily storing the plurality of images;
- performing second selection to select, responsive to a user selection input, images at a second timing from among temporarily stored images;
- and
- determining movie candidate frames from among the plurality of images in accordance with comparison results of images that have been selected or not selected at the second timing,
- wherein the first timing is a given period before and after a user instruction to acquire a still image, and
- wherein the second timing is a time at which, after still image acquisition, an image that will be finally stored in a memory is selected by the user from among a plurality of images that have been acquired using an image sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.