Electronic device and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Furumochi
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Abstract
An electronic device comprises: an image sensor; an input unit used for inputting an instruction that accompanies switching of an actuation method of the image sensor; and a controller that switches the actuation method of the image sensor using either of a first switching method and a second switching method based on a predetermined condition according to an input of the instruction. In the first switching method, the actuation method is switched via a standby state of the image sensor according to the input of the instruction, and in the second switching method, the actuation method is switched at a timing of a start of a next frame immediately after the input of the instruction while actuating the image sensor at a predetermined frame rate.
Claims8
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an image sensor;
- and
- one or more processors and/or circuitry which function as:
- an image processor that performs predetermined signal processing on an image signal output from the image sensor and outputs resultant image data;
- a display unit that displays an image based on the image data undergone the predetermined signal processing by the image processor;
- and
- a controller that switches an actuation method of the image sensor from a first actuation method to a second actuation method using either of a first switching method and a second switching method according to a frame rate of the image capturing apparatus,
- wherein, in the first switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is stopped at a time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method, and
- wherein, in the second switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is not stopped at the time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method.
A control method of an image capturing apparatus comprising:
- performing predetermined signal processing on an image signal output from an image sensor and outputting resultant image data;
- displaying an image based on the image data undergone the predetermined signal processing;
- and
- switching an actuation method of the image sensor from a first actuation method to a second actuation method using either of a first switching method and a second switching method according to a frame rate of the image capturing apparatus,
- wherein, in the first switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is stopped at a time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method, and
- wherein, in the second switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is not stopped at the time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the storage medium storing a program that is executable by the computer, wherein the program includes program code for causing the computer to perform a control method of an image capturing apparatus comprising:
- performing predetermined signal processing on an image signal output from an image sensor and outputting resultant image data;
- displaying an image based on the image data undergone the predetermined signal processing;
- and
- switching an actuation method of the image sensor from a first actuation method to a second actuation method using either of a first switching method and a second switching method according to a frame rate of the image capturing apparatus,
- wherein, in the first switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is stopped at a time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method, and
- wherein, in the second switching method, the image displayed on the display unit is not stopped at the time of switching from the first actuation method to the second actuation method.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.