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US 11,057,563 B2Granted
Image pickup device and method for controlling same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKaiji Nabetani, Akihiro Kodama
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Abstract
A smartphone includes a camera, a control section, and a storage section. The control section determines favorability of a composition of a target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image. Then, in accordance with a result of determining the favorability of the composition of the target frame, the control section stores, in the storage section, a still image which corresponds to the target frame.
Claims10
An image pickup device comprising:
- an image pickup section capable of capturing a still image and a moving image;
- a control device configured to control the image pickup section;
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- a storage section,
- the control device (i) calculating, on the basis of a positional relation of respective images of two or more objects contained in a target frame, a composition score which is an index indicative of favorability of a composition of the target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image, and (ii) in a case where the composition score is not less than a predetermined score threshold, automatically storing the still image in the storage section, the still image corresponding to the target frame.
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A method for controlling an image pickup device,
- the image pickup device including an image pickup section capable of capturing a still image and a moving image, and a storage section,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- (i) calculating, on the basis of a positional relation of respective images of two or more objects contained in a target frame, a composition score which is an index indicative of favorability of a composition of the target frame which is an arbitrary frame among a plurality of frames constituting the moving image;
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- (ii) in a case where the composition score is not less than a predetermined score threshold, automatically, storing the still image in the storage section, the still image corresponding to the target frame.
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