# US 12,225,283 B2 · Imaging apparatus and information presentation system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,225,283 B2 - Document ID: US12225283B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/986,729 - Filed: 2022-11-14 - Published: 2023-05-18 - Granted: 2025-02-11 - Earliest claimed: 2021-11-18 - Assignees: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Takaaki Yamasaki; Shinichi Yamamoto; Kyosuke Osuka; Yuichi Suzuki; Akira Seto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12225283B2 ## CPC - H04N 23/60: Control of cameras or camera modules - H04N 23/64: {Computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality, advice or proposal for image composition or decision on when to take image} - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 5/772: {the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure} - H04N 23/632: {for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters} - H04N 23/633: {for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera} - H04N 23/635: {Region indicators; Field of view indicators} - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION ## Abstract An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; an output interface that outputs information to a user; and a controller that controls the output interface, based on recording data and the image data generated by the image sensor, the recording data recording information on a first moving image, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output shooting assist information during shooting of a second moving image with the image sensor, the shooting assist information assisting the user to match the second moving image with the first moving image. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data; an output interface that outputs information to a user; and a controller that controls the output interface, based on recording data and the image data generated by the image sensor, the recording data recording information on a first moving image that is a video image, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output shooting assist information during shooting of a second moving image with the image sensor, the second moving image being another video image than the first moving image, the second moving image being a real-time video image and the first moving image having been previously captured and stored, the shooting assist information assisting the user to match the second moving image with the first moving image. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output the shooting assist information to play back the first moving image in the shooting of the second moving image, based on the recording data. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the output interface includes at least one of a display or a connecter, the display displaying the second moving image, the connecter connecting the imaging apparatus to the display, and the shooting assist information displays playback of the first moving image with the first moving image and the second moving image being superimposed with each other. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The imaging apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the shooting assist information displays the playback of the first moving image as a moving image of a line drawing to be superimposed on the second moving image. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a detector that detects a shooting state in which the second moving image is shot, wherein the shooting assist information includes a first notification indicating an instruction to reduce a difference between a first shooting state regarding the first moving image and a second shooting state regarding the second moving image, according to the detected shooting state by the detector on playback of the first moving image. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the shooting assist information includes a second notification showing an announcement that a first shooting state regarding the first moving image is to be changed after a time on playback in the first moving image. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The imaging apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the second notification shows the notification at a time before a changing time by a predetermined period, the changing time being a time when the first shooting state is changed in the first moving image in the shooting assist information. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The imaging apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the controller selects a frame for starting playback display of the first moving image, among a plurality of frames in the first moving image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller sets the imaging apparatus to restore a first shooting state regarding the first moving image, to shoot the second moving image. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the recording data records the first moving image in association with a shooting state in which the first moving image is shot. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the output interface outputs the shooting assist information to be viewed by the user with the shooting assist information being superimposed on a scene where the second moving image is shot. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the controller causes the output interface to output, as the shooting assist information, one or more instructions leading the user to perform one or more actions performed in the first moving image in the shooting of the second moving image. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The imaging apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the shooting assist information includes first and second instructions leading the user to perform first and second actions sequentially performed in the first moving image, and the controller detects whether or not the first action is performed by the user after the first instruction is output from the output interface, and causes the output interface to output the second instruction after detecting that the first action is performed. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) An information presentation system comprising: the imaging apparatus according to claim 1; and an information presentation device that presents the shooting assist information output from the output interface of the imaging apparatus to the user.