Imaging apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsTSUTOMU MUKAI, AKIO NISHIYAMA, JUN WATANABE, YASUTOSHI YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by a feature quantity information extracted by an extracting unit is a same face indicated by a feature quantity information stored in a storing unit as the registration candidate, and a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user to perform an operation concerning registration in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate.
Claims24
An imaging apparatus which can be set to a single shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode, comprising:
- an imaging unit operable to capture a subject to generate image data;
- an extracting unit operable to extract feature quantity information indicative of a feature of the subject from the image data generated by the imaging unit;
- a storing unit operable to store the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit as a registration candidate;
- a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is a same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration, in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate, wherein
- the determining unit varies a method for counting number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate, according to the single shooting mode or the continuous shooting mode the imaging apparatus is set to.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target and can be set to a continuous shooting mode, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- a counter operable to count a number of times that an identification subject is shot by the imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the number of times counted by the counter, wherein
- when the imaging apparatus is set to the continuous shooting mode, the counter increases the number of times counted only by one when the identification subject is continuously shot plural number of times by the imaging unit.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target and can be set to a continuous shooting mode, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- a counter operable to count a number of times that an identification subject is shot by the imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the number of times counted by the counter, wherein
- when the imaging apparatus is set to the continuous shooting mode, the counter does not increase the number of times counted when the identification subject is continuously shot plural number of times by the imaging unit.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the subject is shot by the imaging unit.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target and can perform an auto-bracketing shooting operation, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- a counter operable to count a number of times that an identification subject is shot by the imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the number of times counted by the counter, wherein
- when the imaging apparatus performs the auto-bracketing shooting operation, the counter increases the number of times counted only by one when the identification subject is continuously shot plural number of times by the imaging unit.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target and can perform an auto-bracketing shooting operation, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- a counter operable to count a number of times that an identification subject is shot by the imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the number of times counted by the counter, wherein
- when the imaging apparatus performs an auto-bracketing shooting operation, the counter does not increase the number of times counted when the identification subject is continuously shot plural number of times by the imaging unit.
An imaging apparatus which can identify a specific subject registered as identification target, comprising:
- an imaging unit;
- a counter operable to count a number of times that an identification subject is shot by the imaging unit;
- and
- a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user with a user's operation concerning registration of a subject as identification target, in accordance with the number of times counted by the counter, wherein
- after the display unit displayed the display for prompting the user with the user's operation concerning registration of the subject as identification target, when the user's operation is not done by the user, the counter resets the number of times counted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.