Imaging device, display device, control method, and method for controlling area change
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsYoshinori MATSUZAWA, Tsuyoshi YAJI, Osamu NONAKA
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Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging unit that receives light coming from a subject and thus generates electronic image data; a display unit that displays an image corresponding to the image data; an angle-of-view setting unit that an angle of view to be changed for the image displayed by the display unit according to a first signal input from the outside; and a control unit that starts control of change to a predetermined angle of view set by the angle-of-view setting unit according to a second signal different from the first signal.
Claims10
An imaging device capable of performing image capturing and non-capturing operations, the imaging device comprising:
- an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts light received through an image capturing lens and generates image data;
- a display unit that displays an image related to the image data;
- an operation input unit that performs input according to an operation of changing an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit;
- an angle-of-view setting unit that sets an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit according to the input by the operation input unit;
- an angle-of-view change pattern setting unit that sets an angle-of-view change pattern for the operation by the operation input unit to a first pattern when the imaging device is not capturing an image and to a second pattern different from the first pattern when the imaging device is capturing an image;
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- a controller that changes the angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit using the set angle-of-view change pattern.
An imaging method, comprising:
- receiving and photoelectrically converting light and generating image data;
- displaying an image related to the image data;
- performing input according to an operation of changing an angle of view of the image displayed;
- setting an angle of view of the image displayed, according to the input;
- setting an angle-of-view change pattern for the operation to a first pattern when an image is not being captured and to a second pattern different from the first pattern when an image is being captured;
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- changing the angle of view of the image displayed using the set angle-of-view change pattern.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform:
- receiving and photoelectrically converting light and generating image data;
- displaying an image related to the image data;
- performing input according to an operation of changing an angle of view of the image displayed;
- setting an angle of view of the image displayed, according to the input;
- setting an angle-of-view change pattern for the operation to a first pattern when an image is not being captured and to a second pattern different from the first pattern when an image is being captured;
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- changing the angle of view of the image displayed using the set angle-of-view change pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.