Electronic apparatus, imaging device, method for time correction, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsYohei Sakaue, Shigekuni Chiba
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus includes a time measuring unit that measures time, a time information acquiring unit that acquires time information, a determining unit that determines whether a specific process using time measured by the time measuring unit is being performed, and a time correcting unit that corrects time measured by the time measuring unit on the basis of the time information when the determining unit determines that the specific process is not being performed.
Claims12
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a time measuring unit that measures time;
- a time information acquiring unit that acquires time information;
- a determining unit that determines whether a specific process using the measured time is being performed;
- and
- a time correcting unit that corrects time measured by the time measuring unit based on the acquired time information when the determining unit determines that the specific process is not being performed,
- wherein the time information acquiring unit acquires the time information at regular intervals, and
- the time correcting unit corrects the measured time based on a most recently acquired time information and a difference value corresponding to time elapsed from the time that the most recently acquired time information was acquired.
An imaging device, comprising:
- an imaging unit that captures an image of a subject to generate image data;
- a time measuring unit that measures time;
- a recording control unit that records the generated image data in association with the measured time;
- a time information acquiring unit that acquires time information;
- a determining unit that determines whether the image data is being recorded by the recording control unit;
- and
- a time correcting unit that corrects the measured time based on the acquired time information when the determining unit determines that the image data is not being recorded,
- wherein the time information acquiring unit acquires the time information at regular intervals, and
- the time correcting unit corrects the measured time based on a most recently acquired time information and a difference value corresponding to time elapsed from the time that the most recently acquired time information was acquired.
A method for time correction, the method comprising:
- acquiring time information;
- determining whether a specific process using a measured time is being performed;
- and
- correcting the measured time based on the time information when it is determined that the specific process is not being performed,
- wherein the time information is acquired at regular intervals, and
- the measured time is corrected based on a most recently acquired time information and a difference value corresponding to time elapsed from the time that the most recently acquired time information was acquired.
A processor encoded with a computer program for performing a method of time correction, the method comprising:
- acquiring time information;
- determining whether a specific process using a measured time is being performed;
- and
- correcting the measured time based on the time information when it is determined that the specific process is not being performed,
- wherein the time information is acquired at regular intervals, and
- the measured time is corrected based on a most recently acquired time information and a difference value corresponding to time elapsed from the time that the most recently acquired time information was acquired.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.