Image-capture device, image-capture method, and image-capture program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKenichiro Fukuda
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Abstract
An image-capture device includes: an image-capture section that captures an image of a subject; a detector that detects a portion of the subject, the portion having a specific feature, from the image captured by the image-capture section; an evaluator that determines a numerically expressed evaluation value of the specific feature of the portion detected by the detector; a buffer section that temporarily stores delayed images corresponding to a predetermined amount of time; and a recording-operation controller that controls the image-capture device to record image data including a predetermined delayed image in the buffer section, upon determining that the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition.
Claims9
An image-capture device comprising:
- an image-capture section that captures an image of a subject;
- a detector that detects a portion of the subject, the portion having a specific feature, from the image captured by the image-capture section;
- an evaluator that determines a numerically expressed evaluation value of the specific feature of the portion detected by the detector;
- a buffer section that temporarily stores delayed images corresponding to a predetermined amount of time;
- and
- a recording-operation controller that controls the image-capture device to record image data including a predetermined delayed image in the buffer section, upon determining that the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition, in which the buffer section stores a number of evaluation values in a period of time so as to form an evaluation value history, and
- in which the recording-operation controller determines a start image for recording in the buffer section based on the evaluation value history when the evaluation value is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.
An image-capture method for an image-capture device, the method comprising the steps of:
- capturing an image of a subject;
- detecting a portion of the subject, the portion having a specific feature;
- determining a numerically expressed evaluation value of the specific feature of the detected portion;
- determining whether or not the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition;
- storing a number of evaluation values in a period of time so as to form an evaluation value history;
- determining a recording-start time;
- and
- recording image data from the recording-start time,
- in which the recording-start time is determined based on the evaluation value history when the evaluation value is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.
A non-transitory computer readable memory having stored thereon an image-capture program for causing an image-capture device to execute the steps of:
- capturing an image of a subject;
- detecting a portion of the subject, the portion having a specific feature;
- determining a numerically expressed evaluation value of the specific feature of the detected portion;
- determining whether or not the evaluation value satisfies a predetermined condition;
- storing a number of evaluation values in a period of time so as to form an evaluation value history;
- determining a recording-start time;
- and
- recording image data from the recording-start time,
- in which the recording-start time is determined based on the evaluation value history when the evaluation value is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.