Imaging apparatus having a detector for detecting spatial frequency characteristics, control method, and a computer program product having computer program code therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYasuhiko Shiomi
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Abstract
In a digital still camera, it is cumbersome for the camera user to set an image photographing method and saving method of the photographed image, which are suitable for each object. When a photographing mode suitable for a moving object such as a “sports mode” is set, normal photographing is done, and the photographed image is lossless-compressed and saved. When a photographing mode suitable for a still object such as a “portrait mode” is set, a high-resolution image is captured by pixel shift photographing. The photographed image is lossy-compressed and saved.
Claims12
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an imaging unit, arranged to form an object image and generate an original image by a photoelectric conversion of the object image;
- a detector, arranged to detect spatial frequency characteristics of a plurality of color components of the original image;
- a controller, arranged to designate data format and control supply of the original image to a storage unit in correspondence with the detected spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image;
- a shift unit, arranged to shift an optical unit to shift pixels of the original image thereby generating a secondary image having pixels of the plurality of color components shifted from pixels of the plurality of color components of the original image;
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- a generator, arranged to generate a combined image by combining the original image with the secondary image,
- wherein said shift unit changes a shift amount of the optical unit in correspondence with a result of comparison between the spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image detected by said detector.
An imaging method for an imaging apparatus having an imaging unit which forms an object image and generates an original image by a photoelectric conversion of the object image, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting spatial frequency characteristics of a plurality of color components of the original image obtained by the imaging unit;
- designating data format and controlling supply of the original image to a storage unit in correspondence with the detected spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image;
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- shifting an optical unit for shifting pixels of the original image thereby generating a secondary image having pixels of the plurality of color components shifted from pixels of the plurality of color components of the original image;
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- generating a combined image by combining the original image with the secondary image,
- wherein said shifting step changes a shift amount of the optical unit in correspondence with a result of comparison between the spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image detected in said detecting step.
A computer program product stored on a computer readable medium comprising computer program code, for executing imaging processing of an imaging apparatus having an imaging unit which forms an object image and generates an original image by a photoelectric conversion of the object image, the method comprising the steps of:
- detecting spatial frequency characteristics of a plurality of color components of the original image obtained by the imaging unit;
- designating data format and controlling supply of the original image to a storage unit in correspondence with the detected spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image;
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- shifting an optical unit for shifting pixels of the original image thereby generating a secondary image having pixels of the plurality of color components shifted from pixels of the plurality of color components of the original image;
- and
- generating a combined image by combining the original image with the secondary image,
- wherein said shifting step changes a shift amount of the optical unit in correspondence with a result of comparison between the spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image detected in said detecting step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.