Image capture apparatus and method and program for display control thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirotaka Seki
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Abstract
A display apparatus in which a long-time depression of a button for predetermined operations is discriminated, and a light-intensity of a display apparatus is modulated to a maximum or minimum intensity when a long-time depression is identified. This allows for setting a light intensity of a display apparatus by a simple operation.
Claims9
An image capture apparatus comprising:
- a liquid crystal panel;
- a backlight unit configured to irradiate the liquid crystal panel with light from the rear side thereof;
- a controller modulating the intensity of the light of the backlight unit;
- a setting unit facilitating setting the light of the backlight unit at an arbitrary light intensity in accordance with an operation of an operator;
- an operation member;
- and
- an image capture unit,
- wherein the controller modulates the intensity of the light of the backlight unit to a predetermined light intensity in accordance with a predetermined operation of the operation member.
A display control method of controlling an image capture apparatus comprising a display unit, a setting unit facilitating setting a light intensity of the display unit, an operation unit, and an image capture unit, the method comprising setting the display unit at a predetermined light intensity upon a predetermined operation of the operation unit.
A display control method for controlling an image capture apparatus comprising a liquid crystal panel, a backlight unit configured to irradiate the liquid crystal panel with light from the rear side thereof, a controller modulating the light intensity of the backlight, a setting unit facilitating setting the backlight unit at an arbitrary light intensity in accordance with an operation of an operator, an operation member, and an image capture unit, the method comprising changing, with the controller, the light intensity of the backlight to a predetermined light intensity by a predetermined operation of the operation member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.