US 2006/0125926 A1 · Image-taking apparatus

Abstract

Provided is an image-taking apparatus having an easier human machine interface than before. Instead of operating an operator, a mode for a flash condition among multiple shooting conditions displayed on a display panel of a liquid crystal display device is switched from an automatic mode to a forced on mode by shaking a digital camera vertically. Then, the shooting condition is switched to a focusing condition by shaking the digital camera horizontally. The shooting condition is switched from the focusing condition to a white balance condition by shaking this image-taking apparatus horizontally again. Thereafter, a mode for the shooting condition is switched from a macro mode to a macro-off mode by shaking this image-taking apparatus vertically again. Likewise, it is possible to set up various modes for the respective shooting conditions by shaking this image-taking apparatus.

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Dependent claims

An image-taking apparatus which focuses an image on an image pickup device by use of an image-taking optical system and thereby generates an image signal, the image-taking apparatus comprising:

a sensor which detects vibration of the image-taking apparatus;
and
a mode setting section which sets up a mode respectively in terms of a plurality of shooting conditions,
wherein the mode setting section switches a shooting condition out of the plurality of shooting conditions including a mode subject to setting and the mode in the shooting condition in response to the vibration detected by the sensor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Image-taking apparatus

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