Image capturing control apparatus, image capturing control method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuya Toyoda
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Abstract
An image capturing control apparatus is provided and detects a first target subject and a second target subject, converts intra-angle-of-view coordinates of each of the first and second target subjects into pan and tilt coordinate values, store the pan coordinate value and the tilt coordinate value of each of the first and the second target subject, determine an angle of view so as to include the first and second target subjects based on the stored pan and tilt coordinate values, and control an angle of view of the image capturing apparatus based on the determined angle of view.
Claims14
An image capturing control apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories having instructions stored therein;
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- one or more processors that, upon execution of the stored instructions;
- configures the apparatus to:
- detect a first target subject from an image captured by an image capturing unit in a state of a first angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- detect a second target subject from an image captured by the image capturing unit in a state of a second angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- convert intra-angle-of-view coordinates of each of the first target subject in the first angle of view and the second target subject in the second angle of view into a pan coordinate value and a tilt coordinate value;
- store the pan coordinate value and the tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject;
- determine an angle of view so as to include the first target subject and the second target subject based on the stored pan coordinate value and the stored tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject, even if a current angle of view of the imaging unit does not include at least one of the first target subject and the second target subject;
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- control an angle of view of the image capturing unit based on the determined angle of view.
An image capturing control method to be performed by an image capturing control apparatus which controls an image capturing unit, the image capturing control method comprising:
- detecting a first target subject from an image captured by the image capturing unit in a state of a first angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- detecting a second target subject from an image captured by the image capturing unit in a state of a second angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- converting intra-angle-of-view coordinates of each of the first target subject in the first angle of view and the second target subject in the second angle of view into a pan coordinate value and a tilt coordinate value;
- storing the pan coordinate value and the tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject;
- determining an angle of view so as to include the first target subject and the second target subject based on the stored pan coordinate value and the stored tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject, even if a current angle of view of the imaging unit does not include at least one of the first target subject and the second target subject;
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- controlling an angle of view of the image capturing unit based on the determined angle of view.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform an image capturing control method for controlling an image capturing unit, the image capturing control method comprising:
- detecting a first target subject from an image captured by the image capturing unit in a state of a first angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- detecting a second target subject from an image captured by the image capturing unit in a state of a second angle of view of the image capturing unit;
- converting intra-angle-of-view coordinates of each of the first target subject in the first angle of view and the second target subject in the second angle of view into a pan coordinate value and a tilt coordinate value;
- storing the pan coordinate value and the tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject;
- determining an angle of view so as to include the first target subject and the second target subject based on the stored pan coordinate value and the stored tilt coordinate value of each of the first target subject and the second target subject, even if a current angle of view of the imaging unit does not include at least one of the first target subject and the second target subject;
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- controlling an angle of view of the image capturing unit based on the determined angle of view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.