Imaging apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMakoto Oikawa
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject, a finder optical system configured to enable a photographer to optically observe the subject, and an image display unit disposed in the finder optical system and configured to display an image of the subject captured by the image sensor and to enable the photographer to observe an electronic image of the subject when the photographer looks in the finder optical system. The image display unit is configured to display an image having been subjected to image processing performed on the electronic image considering a distortion caused by the finder optical system.
Claims7
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject;
- a finder optical system configured to enable a photographer to optically observe the subject, the finder optical system including a prism having a plurality of reflection surfaces;
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- an image display unit disposed in the finder optical system and configured to display the captured image and to enable the photographer to observe an electronic image of the subject through the prism when the photographer looks in the finder optical system,
- wherein an optical image of the subject and the electronic image of the subject are reflected by the different reflection surfaces of the prism included in the finder optical system, and
- wherein the image display unit is configured to display on a display area an image having been subjected to image processing performed on the electronic image considering a distortion caused by the finder optical system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.