Image pickup apparatus and display control method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTokuichiro Yamada, Tsutomu Kume
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus uses an image pickup device. A manual focus adjusting unit is configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input operation. An edge detecting unit is configured to detect edge components from an image signal obtained by the image pickup device and to output detection levels of the detected edge components. A color signal replacement unit is configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level with a predetermined color signal when the detection level satisfies a predetermined condition. A display unit is configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit.
Claims10
An image pickup apparatus using an image pickup device, the image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input operation;
- an edge detecting unit configured to detect edge components from an image signal obtained by the image pickup device in response to determining that the manual focus adjusting unit has been operated by the user to control the focus lens, and to output detection levels of the detected edge components;
- a color signal replacement unit configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level with a predetermined color signal when the detection level satisfies a predetermined condition;
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- a display unit configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit.
An image pickup apparatus using an image pickup device, the image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input operation;
- an edge detecting unit configured to detect edge components from an image signal obtained by the image pickup device and output detection levels of the detected edge components;
- a color signal replacement unit configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level with a predetermined color signal when the detection level satisfies a predetermined condition;
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- a display unit configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit,
- wherein when the detection level satisfies the predetermined condition, the color signal replacement unit replaces the signal for the corresponding pixel with a different color signal corresponding to the detection level, and
- when the detection level satisfies the predetermined condition, the color signal replacement unit selects a color signal corresponding to the detection level from a plurality of different color signals stored in advance and performs replacement using the selected color signal.
An image pickup apparatus using an image pickup device, the image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input operation;
- an edge detecting unit configured to detect edge components from an image signal obtained by the image pickup device and output detection levels of the detected edge components;
- a color signal replacement unit configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level with a predetermined color signal when the detection level satisfies a predetermined condition;
- a display unit configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit;
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- a replacement operation control unit configured to turn on a color signal replacement operation of the color signal replacement unit when the focus lens starts to be moved by the manual focus adjusting unit.
An image pickup apparatus using an image pickup device, the image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a manual focus adjusting unit configured to control a focus lens in response to a user's input operation;
- an edge detecting unit configured to detect edge components from an image signal obtained by the image pickup device and output detection levels of the detected edge components;
- a color signal replacement unit configured to replace a signal of a pixel corresponding to the detection level with a predetermined color signal when the detection level satisfies a predetermined condition;
- a display unit configured to display an image based on an output image signal from the color signal replacement unit;
- a shutter release button configured to receive an input operation for recording the image signal obtained by image pickup on a recording medium in a completely pressed state and to receive an input operation for performing an image adjusting process and an image pickup operation control process that are substantially the same as that in which the image signal is recorded on the recording medium in a halfway pressed state;
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- a replacement operation control unit configured to turn off the color signal replacement operation of the color signal replacement unit when the shutter release button is in the halfway pressed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.