Imaging device, display device, control method, and method for controlling area change
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
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.
Claims9
An imaging controller capable of performing image capturing with an optical zoom that optically zooms an image capturing lens and with an electronic zoom that electronically zooms an image, the imaging controller comprising:
- an image data input unit configured to input image data obtained by the image capturing;
- a display unit configured to display an image related to the image data;
- a touch panel provided on the display unit and configured to perform input to receive a user-specified position for changing an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit;
- an angle-of-view setting unit configured to set an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit according to the input received by the touch panel;
- a zoom control determination unit configured to determine to zoom with the optical zoom when the angle of view set by the angle-of-view setting unit includes an optical axis, and to determine to zoom with the electronic zoom when the angle-of-view set by the angle-of-view setting unit includes no optical axis;
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- a control unit configured to change the angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit in accordance with a determination result of the zoom control determination unit.
An imaging control method, comprising:
- inputting image data obtained by the image capturing;
- displaying an image related to the image data;
- receiving a user-specified touch-screen input for changing an angle of view of the image displayed;
- setting an angle of view of the image displayed, according to the input received;
- determining to zoom with an optical zoom that optically zooms an image capturing lens when the angle of view set by setting includes an optical axis, and determining to zoom with an electronic zoom that electronically zooms the image when the angle-of-view set by the setting includes no optical axis;
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- changing the angle of view of the image displayed, in accordance with a determination result of the determining.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to perform:
- inputting image data obtained by image capturing;
- displaying an image related to the image data;
- receiving a user-specified touch-screen input for changing an angle of view of the image displayed;
- setting an angle of view of the image displayed, according to the input received;
- determining to zoom with an optical zoom that optically zooms an image capturing lens when the angle of view set by setting includes an optical axis, and determining to zoom with an electronic zoom that electronically zooms the image when the angle-of-view set by the setting includes no optical axis;
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- changing the angle of view of the image displayed, in accordance with a determination result of the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.