Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorihiko Kobayashi
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Abstract
A user who does not know a detailed configuration of an information processing apparatus may easily obtain a manual. However, there is a problem in that, after that, the user does not easily recognize which operation is to be performed at which location, according to the manual. When a location at which the user is to perform an operation is not displayed on a display unit, guidance information is displayed which indicates the direction in which the user is to move an image pickup apparatus so as to display the location.
Claims9
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- image pickup means;
- display means for displaying an image of an image pickup object picked up by the image pickup means;
- determination means for determining whether or not an image of a location at which a user is to perform an operation is picked up by the image pickup means, on the basis of the image pickup object;
- and
- control means for controlling the display means so as to display guidance information indicating a direction to the location at which the user is to perform an operation, in the case where the determination means determines that an image of the location at which the user is to perform an operation is not picked up.
A method for controlling an image pickup apparatus, the method comprising:
- picking up an image of an image pickup object;
- displaying the image of the image pickup object which has been picked up;
- determining whether or not an image of a location at which a user is to perform an operation is picked up on the basis of the image pickup object;
- and
- performing control so as to display guidance information indicating a direction to the location at which the user is to perform an operation, in the case where it is determined that an image of the location at which the user is to perform an operation is not picked up.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.