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US 8,508,644 B2Granted
Imaging apparatus with display unit for displaying image of an imaging subject
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoru Akiyama
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a display unit capable of being displaced between a non use state and a use state in such a manner that a display surface displaying an image of a subject is directed at least to the subject or a user in the use state, and a display control unit that inverts a direction in a vertical direction of the image of the subject displayed on the display surface in response to an operation on an operation member when the display unit is in the use state and cancels the inversion when the display unit is in the non use state.
Claims7
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a display unit configured to display an image of a subject, wherein the display unit is displaced from a non use position to a first use position by displacement in a first direction, wherein the display unit is displaced from the non use position to a second use position by displacement in a second direction which is reverse to the first direction;
- a detection unit configured to detect that the display unit is in the non use position;
- an operation member configured to be operable by a user;
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- a display control unit configured to control the display unit so that the display unit displays the image when the display unit is in the first use position or the second use position, wherein the display control unit changes an upper direction of the image in accordance with the display unit being in the first use position or the second use position, wherein the display control unit inverts the upper direction of the image in response to an operation on the operation member regardless of the display unit being in the first use position or the second use position, wherein the display control unit cancels the inversion when the detection unit detects that the display unit is in the non use position.
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