Apparatus for ordering to phototake with eye-detection
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorsTadao Takagi, Ken Utagawa, Toshimi Watanabe, Minoru Kato, Yoshihiro Takeuchi, Hideya Inoue
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Abstract
A camera operation directing device includes an eye-gaze direction detection device for detecting a direction of an eye-gaze of an observer who is looking into a finder, in a predetermined eye-gaze operation area within the finder and for outputting an eye-gaze operation signal, and a photographic operation direction device for directing the photographic operation, including at least starting of a photo-taking operation, in accordance with the eye-gaze operation signal from the eye-gaze direction detection device.
Claims10
A camera having an eye-gaze detecting means comprising:
- eye-gaze detecting means for detecting the position of an eye-gaze of a camera operator who is looking into a finder;
- display means for performing display in said finder;
- and
- display control means for controlling the display by said display means so that it is made in an inconspicuous manner when said eye-gaze detecting means is detecting an eye-gaze.
A camera having an eye-gaze detecting means comprising:
- eye-gaze detecting means for detecting the position of an eye-gaze of a camera operator who is looking into a finder;
- display means for performing display in said finder;
- and
- display control means which causes said display means to display when the position detected by said eye-gaze detecting means is outside a visual field.
A camera comprising:
- a finder for observing a subject corresponding to a photo-taking screen;
- eye-gaze detecting means for detecting the position of an eye-gaze of a camera operator who is looking into said finder;
- display means for performing display in said finder;
- display control means for generating a control signal causing said display means to operate;
- and
- display prohibiting means for prohibiting said eye-gaze detecting means from operating when said control signal is generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.