Image capturing apparatus, and control method and program therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHaruhisa Ueda
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Abstract
To allow an AF mode to be quickly changed when the AF mode can be changed among a plurality of AF modes. There are provided an AF range specified area determining unit that sets an AF range in accordance with a touch of a touching object on a display unit and an AF mode determining unit that automatically selects an AF mode in accordance with a face recognition result obtained by an object recognizing unit in the AF range set by the AF range specified area determining unit and a determination result obtained by a focusing portion determining unit, in an AF automatic selection mode in which an AF mode is automatically selected.
Claims16
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- display means for displaying an output image from image capturing means for capturing an object image, the display means being capable of detecting a plurality of touches of a touching object;
- focus detecting means for performing focus detection on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
- focusing portion determining means for determining an area where focusing is possible on the basis of an output from the focus detecting means;
- object recognizing means for recognizing a certain object on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
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- mode determining means for performing, in accordance with a touch of the touching object on the display means, at least any one of automatic selection of an AF mode from among a plurality of AF modes, automatic selection of an AE mode from among a plurality of AE modes, and automatic selection of a color temperature adjustment mode from among a plurality of color temperature adjustment modes.
A control method for an image capturing apparatus including display means for displaying an output image from image capturing means for capturing an object image, the display means being capable of detecting a plurality of touches of a touching object, the control method comprising:
- a focus detecting step of performing focus detection on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
- a focusing portion determining step of determining an area where focusing is possible on the basis of an output in the focus detecting step;
- an object recognizing step of recognizing a certain object on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
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- a mode determining step of performing, in accordance with a touch of the touching object on the display means, at least any one of automatic selection of an AF mode from among a plurality of AF modes, automatic selection of an AE mode from among a plurality of AE modes, and automatic selection of a color temperature adjustment mode from among a plurality of color temperature adjustment modes.
A program for controlling an image capturing apparatus including display means for displaying an output image from image capturing means for capturing an object image, the display means being capable of detecting a plurality of touches of a touching object, the program causing a computer to function as:
- focus detecting means for performing focus detection on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
- focusing portion determining means for determining an area where focusing is possible on the basis of an output from the focus detecting means;
- object recognizing means for recognizing a certain object on the basis of the output image from the image capturing means;
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- mode determining means for performing, in accordance with a touch of the touching object on the display means, at least any one of automatic selection of an AF mode from among a plurality of AF modes, automatic selection of an AE mode from among a plurality of AE modes, and automatic selection of a color temperature adjustment mode from among a plurality of color temperature adjustment modes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.