Cradle-installation type digital camera, control method therefor and cradle-installation type digital camera system
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorShiro Nagaoka
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Abstract
A digital camera can be selectively installed in a cradle in whichever states where an imaging lens is arranged toward the outside in the cradle or where a liquid crystal display portion is arranged toward the outside in the cradle, and a device connected to the cradle and the digital camera is allowed to perform a linkage operation.
Claims18
A cradle-installation type digital camera comprising a camera body, an imaging lens on the camera body and a display portion on the camera body wherein the camera body is constituted to be selectively installable in whichever states where the imaging lens is arranged toward the outside in a cradle or where the display portion is arranged toward the outside in the cradle.
A control method for a cradle-installation type digital camera to control the digital camera installed in a cradle, comprising:
- detecting whether the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the imaging lens arranged toward the outside, or the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the display portion arranged toward the outside;
- and
- controlling so as to allow the digital camera to perform an imaging operation in a state where it is detected that the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the imaging lens arranged toward the outside.
A control method for a cradle-installation type digital camera to control the digital camera installed in a cradle, comprising:
- a detecting step of detecting whether the digital camera was installed in the cradle with an imaging lens arranged toward the outside, or the digital camera was installed in the cradle with a display portion arranged toward the outside;
- and
- a control step of controlling by the detecting step so as to allow the digital camera to perform an imaging operation in a state where it is detected that the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the imaging lens arranged toward the outside.
A control method for a cradle-installation type digital camera to control the digital camera installed in a cradle, comprising:
- detecting whether the digital camera was installed in the cradle with an imaging lens arranged toward the outside, or the digital camera was installed in the cradle with a display portion arranged toward the outside;
- and
- controlling so as to allow the display portion to perform an image display operation in a state where it is detected that the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the display portion arranged toward the outside.
A control method for a cradle-installation type digital camera to control the digital camera installed in a cradle, comprising:
- a detecting step of detecting whether the digital camera was installed in the cradle with an imaging lens arranged toward the outside, or the digital camera was installed in the cradle with a display portion arranged toward the outside;
- and
- a control step of controlling by the detecting step so as to allow the display portion to perform an imaging operation in a state where it is detected that the digital camera was installed in the cradle with the imaging lens arranged toward the outside.
A cradle-installation type digital camera system comprising:
- a cradle;
- a digital camera constituted to be selectively installable in whichever states where an imaging lens is arranged toward the outside in the cradle or a display portion is arranged toward the outside in the cradle;
- and
- a device capable of performing an operation linked to the digital camera which is connected to the cradle and installed in the cradle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.