Optimal-state image pickup camera
AssigneeCasio Computer Co., Ltd.
InventorJunichi Yoshida
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Abstract
A digital camera that picks up an image of a print/picture and displays it in a monitor frame image. The camera comprises a CPU that identifies an area of the image of the print/picture and drives an image pickup unit such that the identified area of the image of the print/picture is placed in an optimal state in the frame image.
Claims7
A digital camera that picks up an image of a document and displays the image of the document as a frame image on an image monitor, the camera comprising:
- means for identifying an area of the document in the frame image;
- first control means for automatically adjusting an image pickup direction of the camera, by correcting a direction of an image pickup lens of an optical system of the camera, based on deflection directions and values of the identified area of the document with respect to a center of the frame image;
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- second control means for automatically driving the optical system to control an image pickup magnification of the optical system and thereby control a size of the image of the document to be picked up;
- wherein the deflection directions and values are obtained by comparing a center of the identified area of the document with the center of the frame image.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program for controlling a camera that picks up an image of a document and displays the image of the document as a frame image on an image monitor, said program controlling said camera to execute functions comprising:
- identifying an area of the document in the frame image;
- automatically adjusting an image pickup direction of the camera, by controlling a direction of an image pickup lens of an optical system of the camera, based on deflection directions and values of the identified area of the document with respect to a center of the frame image;
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- automatically driving the optical system to control an image pickup magnification of the optical system and thereby control a size of the image of the document to be picked up;
- wherein the deflection directions and values are obtained by comparing a center of the identified area of the document with the center of the frame image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.