Image pickup apparatus, guide frame displaying controlling method and computer program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYuji Saitou
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Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed which allows a user to grasp recording image regions for a moving image and a still image to be recorded actually to perform accurate image recording. An image pickup apparatus which can record moving images and still images determines forms of guide frames for a moving image and a still image based on aspect ratios for moving images and still images set in advance by a user. The guide frames are displayed on a monitor screen in response to a situation of an actual recording process. Where the image pickup apparatus is not in a state wherein image data can be recorded such as where a medium does not exist, only a guide frame for an image of a category which can be recorded is displayed together with a picked up image.
Claims11
An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- an image pickup element for picking up a subject image;
- a display section for outputting image data acquired by said image pickup element;
- and
- a control section for executing display control of a guide frame to be displayed as image recording region information corresponding to a recording medium on said display section,
- said control section executing control of determining a form of a guide frame for a moving image and a form of a guide frame for a still image based on recording mode setting information for moving images and still images set in advance and outputting the guide frames corresponding to the determined forms to said display section.
A guide frame displaying controlling method for performing display control of a guide frame to be displayed as recording region information on a display section as a monitor screen of an image pickup apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- determining a form of a guide frame for a moving image and a form of a guide frame for a still image based on recording mode setting information for moving images and still images set in advance;
- and
- outputting guide frames of the forms determined at the guide frame form determination step to said display section.
A computer program for causing a computer to execute display control of a guide frame to be displayed as recording region information on a display section as a monitor screen of an image pickup apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- determining a form of a guide frame for a moving image and a form of a guide frame for a still image based on recording mode setting information for moving images and still images set in advance;
- and
- outputting guide frames of the forms determined at the guide frame form determination step to said display section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.