# US 2013/0155310 A1 · Imaging apparatus, user interface, and associated methodology for a co-existent shooting and reproduction mode > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2013/0155310 A1 - Document ID: US20130155310A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 13/687,011 - Filed: 2012-11-28 - Published: 2013-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2004-05-13 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Motoki Kobayashi; Miwako Yoritate; Yoshimitsu Funabashi; Shinichi Iriya; Kayo Sasaki - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20130155310A1 ## CPC - H04N 23/631: {Graphical user interfaces [GUI] specially adapted for controlling image capture or setting capture parameters} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0485: Scrolling or panning - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - H04N 23/633: {for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera} - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A currently captured image of an object is displayed at a center of a display frame on a display screen in a shooting mode. When a dial is rotated, the currently captured image is moved rightward. A reproduced image captured before the currently captured image is displayed on the left thereof. Another reproduced image captured before the reproduced image is displayed on the left thereof. The currently captured image and the reproduced images are displayed simultaneously on the display screen as a co-existent shooting and reproducing mode. When the dial is rotated in the counterclockwise direction, only the reproduced images are displayed in a reproducing mode. The reproduced images are displayed along a time axis. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image display apparatus comprising: a control unit configured to control a display to display a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a previously captured image simultaneously, wherein the control unit is configured to control, responsive to an instruction, the imaging unit to capture the current image as a new previously captured image, and the control unit is configured to control, responsive to the instruction, the display to animate a gradual decrease in size of the new previously captured image, the gradual decrease including at least a two-step decrease. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an input device configured to generate the instruction in response to an external input. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The image display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the input device is a shutter button. ### Claim 4 A method of causing an image display apparatus to display at least one image, comprising: displaying, on a display, a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a previously captured image simultaneously; capturing, in the imaging unit and responsive to an instruction, the current image as a new previously captured image; and animating, on the display, a gradual decrease in size of the new previously captured image, wherein the gradual decrease including at least a two-step decrease. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method according to claim 4, wherein the instruction is generated in response to depression of a shutter button. ### Claim 6 A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions thereon that when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising: displaying a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a previously captured image simultaneously; capturing, responsive to an instruction, the current image as a new previously captured image; and animating a gradual decrease in size of the new previously captured image, wherein the gradual decrease including at least a two-step decrease. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 6, wherein the instruction is generated in response to depression of a shutter button. ### Claim 8 An image display controlling apparatus, comprising: a control unit configured to control a display to display a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a first previously captured image simultaneously, wherein the control unit is configured to control, responsive to an instruction, the imaging unit to capture the current image as a second previously captured image, and the control unit is configured to control, responsive to the instruction, the display to animate the second previously captured image to gradually move in a direction corresponding to the first previously captured image. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The image display apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising: an input device configured to generate the instruction in response to an external input. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The image display apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the input device is a shutter button. ### Claim 11 A method of causing an image display controlling apparatus to control image display, comprising: displaying a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a first previously captured image simultaneously on a display; controlling, responsive to an instruction, the imaging unit to capture the current image as a second previously captured image; and controlling, responsive to the instruction, the display to animate the second previously captured image to gradually move in a direction corresponding to the first previously captured image. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method according to claim 11, wherein the instruction is generated in response to depression of a shutter button. ### Claim 13 A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions thereon, the computer-readable instructions when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method comprising: displaying a current image of an object currently being captured by an imaging unit and a first previously captured image simultaneously on a display; controlling, responsive to an instruction, the imaging unit to capture the current image as a second previously captured image; and controlling, responsive to the instruction, the display to animate the second previously captured image to gradually move in a direction corresponding to the first previously captured image. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13, wherein the instruction is generated in response to depression of a shutter button.