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Image capturing apparatus capable of suppressing detection of subject not intended by user, control method for image capturing apparatus, and storage medium

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorTetsuya Hada

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Abstract

An image capturing apparatus obtains an image, a first detecting unit detects a specific subject from the image, a second detecting unit detects an identifier from the image, a decoding unit obtains information indicated by the detected identifier, a comparing unit compares a distance from a center of the photographing view angle of the image to a region that the subject is detected and a distance from the center of the view angle to a region that the identifier is detected, or a comparison between a size of the region that the subject is detected and a size of the region that the identifier is detected. According to the comparison, a processing unit switches between displaying a screen that allows a user to select whether to execute processing based on the identifier indicated information, without automatic focus control, and performing the automatic focus control for the subject without screen display.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An image capturing apparatus comprising:

at least one processor;
and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the image capturing apparatus to function as:
an obtaining unit configured to obtain an image;
a first detecting unit configured to detect a specific subject from the image;
a second detecting unit configured to detect an identifier from the image;
a decoding unit configured to obtain information indicated by the identifier detected by the second detecting unit;
a comparing unit configured to perform a comparison between a distance from a center of a photographing view angle of the obtained image to a region that the specific subject is detected and a distance from the center of the photographing view angle of the obtained image to a region that the identifier is detected, or a comparison between a size of the region that the specific subject is detected and a size of the region that the identifier is detected;
and
a processing unit configured to switch, according to a result of the comparison performed by the comparing unit, between displaying a screen that allows a user to select whether or not to execute processing based on the information indicated by the identifier without performing an automatic focus control for the specific subject, and performing the automatic focus control for the specific subject without displaying the screen.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/967,056Filed 17 Oct 2022
Priority: JP 2021-18804718 Nov 2021
Published: US 2023/0154148 A118 May 2023
Granted: 2 Sep 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

G06V 10/761
Image or video pattern matching; Proximity measures in feature spaces: proximity, similarity or dissimilarity measures
H04N 23/611
Based on recognised objects: where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
G06K 7/1417
The method being specifically adapted for the type of code: 2D bar codes
G06T 7/62
Analysis of geometric attributes: of area, perimeter, diameter or volume