Image capture apparatus, control method therefor, image processing apparatus, and image processing system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshihiro Shibata
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Abstract
An image capture apparatus obtains image data captured using an image sensor and then generates, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data. The image capture apparatus comprises a first output circuit for outputting the image data in a first format to an external apparatus and a second output circuit for outputting a part of the metadata in a second format to the external apparatus. The second output circuit is from the first output circuit.
Claims16
An image capture apparatus, comprising:
- an obtainment circuit that obtains image data captured using an image sensor;
- a metadata generation circuit that generates, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data;
- a first output circuit for outputting the image data in a first format to an external apparatus;
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- a second output circuit for outputting a part of the metadata in a second format to the external apparatus, the second output circuit being different from the first output circuit,
- wherein the metadata output from the second output circuit is metadata that is necessary for the external apparatus to composite CG data with the image data output from the first output circuit.
An image processing apparatus connected to an image capture apparatus in a communication-enabled manner,
- wherein the image capture apparatus comprising:
- an obtainment circuit that obtains image data captured using an image sensor;
- a metadata generation circuit that generates, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data;
- a first output circuit for outputting the image data in a first format to an external apparatus;
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- a second output circuit for outputting a part of the metadata in a second format to the external apparatus, the second output circuit being different from the first output circuit, and
- wherein the image processing apparatus comprising:
- a first input circuit that receives image data that has been output from the first output circuit and then converted into a format different from the first format;
- a second input circuit that receives metadata in the second format that has been output from the second output circuit;
- a CG generation circuit that generates CG data with use of the metadata;
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- a processing circuit that composites the CG data with the image data with use of the metadata.
An image processing system in which an image capture apparatus and an image processing apparatus are connected in a communication-enabled manner,
- wherein the image capture apparatus comprising:
- an obtainment circuit that obtains image data captured using an image sensor;
- a metadata generation circuit that generates, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data;
- a first output circuit for outputting the image data in a first format to an external apparatus;
- and
- a second output circuit for outputting a part of the metadata in a second format to the external apparatus, the second output circuit being different from the first output circuit, and
- wherein the image processing apparatus comprising:
- a first input circuit that receives image data that has been output from the first output circuit and then converted into a format different from the first format;
- a second input circuit that receives metadata in the second format that has been output from the second output circuit;
- a CG generation circuit that generates CG data with use of the metadata;
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- a processing circuit that composites the CG data with the image data with use of the metadata.
A control method for an image capture apparatus, comprising:
- obtaining image data captured using an image sensor;
- generating, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data;
- outputting the image data in a first format from a first output circuit to an external apparatus;
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- outputting a part of the metadata in a second format from a second output circuit to the external apparatus, the second output circuit being different from the first output circuit,
- wherein the metadata output from the second output circuit is metadata that is necessary for the external apparatus to composite CG data with the image data output from the first output circuit.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer of an image capture apparatus to execute a control method for an image capture apparatus that includes a first output circuit and a second output circuit different from the first output circuit, wherein the control method comprising:
- obtaining image data captured using an image sensor;
- generating, as metadata, information relating to a state of the image capture apparatus at the time of capturing the image data as well as to the image data;
- outputting the image data in a first format from the first output circuit to an external apparatus;
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- outputting a part of the metadata in a second format from the second output circuit to the external apparatus,
- wherein the metadata output from the second output circuit is metadata that is necessary for the external apparatus to composite CG data with the image data output from the first output circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.