Imaging apparatus and method for controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasato Uchihara
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Abstract
A method for controlling a plurality of imaging apparatuses capable of communicating with each other includes acquiring information about an image capturing angle of view of each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and determining an image capturing parameter to be used when one imaging apparatus among the plurality of imaging apparatuses shifts to a use state, based on information about an image capturing parameter or evaluation value in an other imaging apparatus, and an image capturing angle of view of each of the other imaging apparatus and the one imaging apparatus.
Claims19
A method for controlling a plurality of imaging apparatuses capable of communicating with each other, the method comprising:
- acquiring information about an image capturing angle of view of each of the plurality of imaging apparatuses;
- and
- determining an image capturing parameter to be used when one imaging apparatus among the plurality of imaging apparatuses shifts to a use state, based on information about an image capturing parameter or evaluation value in an other imaging apparatus, and an image capturing angle of view of each of the other imaging apparatus and the one imaging apparatus.
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging unit configured to image an object;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an image capturing angle of view of an other imaging apparatus and information about an image capturing parameter or evaluation value of the other imaging apparatus;
- a comparison unit configured to perform a comparison between an image capturing angle of view of the imaging unit and the image capturing angle of view of the other imaging apparatus;
- a correction unit configured to correct the acquired image capturing parameter or evaluation value, based on a result of the comparison by the comparison unit;
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- a control unit configured to control image capturing using the image capturing parameter or evaluation value corrected by the correction unit.
A method for controlling a plurality of imaging apparatuses that communicate with each other, the method comprising:
- determining whether one imaging apparatus among the plurality of imaging apparatuses shifts from a non-use state to a use state;
- acquiring information about an image capturing parameter or evaluation value of an other imaging apparatus, when the one imaging apparatus shifts to the use state;
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- performing image capturing with the one imaging apparatus, using an image capturing parameter determined based on the acquired information about the image capturing parameter or the evaluation value of the other imaging apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.