Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling same and program therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Ono
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus for capturing the image of a subject includes: a lock/unlock unit adapted to lock and unlock operation of the image capturing apparatus; a registration unit adapted to register a main item and a sub-item that have been selected by a user, wherein the main item is a main setting item among operation items of the image capturing apparatus and the sub-item is a setting item in a layer lower than that of the main item; and a control unit adapted to limit operation solely to a release operation of the image capturing apparatus and to the main item and sub-item, which have been registered by the registration unit, in a case where operation of the image capturing apparatus has been locked by the lock/unlock unit.
Claims7
An image capturing apparatus for capturing the image of a subject, comprising:
- a first setting unit configured to set able/unable to operate a desired main-item among a plurality of main-items in an operation menu of the image capturing apparatus which designates an image capturing condition of the image capturing apparatus;
- a second setting unit configured to set able/unable to operate a desired sub-item among a plurality of sub-items in a lower layer than that of the main item;
- a display unit configured to display the operation menu based on the setting of said first and second setting units when the image capturing apparatus is in an image capturing mode;
- a control unit configured to set user's operation to the operable main-item and sub-item enable and set user's operation to the inoperable main-item and sub-item disable;
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- a determination unit configured to determine the image capturing condition based on the operable main-item and sub-item.
A method of controlling an image capturing apparatus for capturing the image of a subject, said method comprising:
- a first setting step of setting able/unable to operate a desired main-item among a plurality of main-items in an operation menu of the image capturing apparatus which designates an image capturing condition of the image capturing apparatus;
- a second setting step of setting able/unable to operate a desired sub-item among a plurality of sub-items in a lower layer than that of the main item;
- a display step of displaying the operation menu based on the setting of said first and second setting steps when the image capturing apparatus is in an image capturing mode;
- a control step of setting user's operation to the operable main-item and sub-item enable and set user's operation to the inoperable main-item and sub-item disable;
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- a determination step of determining the image capturing condition based on the operable main-item and sub-item.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.