Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, recording medium, and image capturing system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakuya SAKAMAKI
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Abstract
An apparatus controls an image capturing apparatus that obtains, through automatic shooting, an image to be provided to a user. The apparatus evaluates a state of a subject, determines, based on a result of the evaluation, whether to cause the image capturing apparatus to perform shooting, obtains demand information that indicates demand tendencies of a user respectively for state types of the subject, and controls an operation of the determination based on the demand information. The apparatus controls the operation of the determination so that a frequency at which the image capturing apparatus performs shooting varies in accordance with magnitudes of demands for the respective state types of the subject.
Claims16
A control apparatus that controls an image capturing apparatus that obtains, through automatic shooting, an image to be provided to a user, the control apparatus comprising
- at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as the following units:
- an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a state of a subject;
- a determination unit configured to, based on a result of the evaluation made by the evaluation unit, determine whether to cause the image capturing apparatus to perform shooting;
- an obtainment unit configured to obtain demand information that indicates demand tendencies of a user respectively for state types of the subject;
- and
- a control unit configured to control an operation of the determination unit based on the demand information obtained by the obtainment unit,
- wherein the control unit controls the operation of the determination unit so that a frequency at which the image capturing apparatus performs shooting varies in accordance with magnitudes of demands for the respective state types of the subject.
A control method for a control apparatus that controls an image capturing apparatus that obtains, through automatic shooting, an image to be provided to a user, the control method comprising:
- evaluating a state of a subject;
- based on a result of the evaluation made in the evaluating, determining whether to cause the image capturing apparatus to perform shooting;
- obtaining demand information that indicates demand tendencies of a user respectively for state types of the subject;
- and
- controlling the determination based on the demand information obtained in the obtaining,
- wherein in the controlling, the determination is controlled so that a frequency at which the image capturing apparatus performs shooting varies in accordance with magnitudes of demands for the respective state types of the subject.
An image capturing system that provides, to a user, an image obtained through automatic shooting performed by an image capturing apparatus, the image capturing system including the image capturing apparatus, a control apparatus that controls the image capturing apparatus, and a collection server that collects demand tendencies of the user based on the image provided to the user,
- the control apparatus including at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as the following units:
- an evaluation unit configured to evaluate a state of a subject;
- a determination unit configured to, based on a result of the evaluation made by the evaluation unit, determine whether to cause the image capturing apparatus to perform shooting;
- an obtainment unit configured to obtain, from the collection server, demand information that indicates demand tendencies of a user respectively for state types of the subject;
- and
- a control unit configured to control an operation of the determination unit based on the demand information obtained by the obtainment unit,
- wherein the control unit controls the operation of the determination unit so that a frequency at which the image capturing apparatus performs shooting varies in accordance with magnitudes of demands for the respective state types of the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.