Shooting apparatus and method for controlling shooting apparatus
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorsOsamu Nonaka, Masaomi Tomizawa
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Abstract
A camera includes: a shooting section that outputs images of an object; a moving image shooting control section that controls the shooting section to repeat shooting under predetermined shooting conditions at a predetermined frame rate; a moving image generation section that generates moving images based on images shot under the predetermined shooting conditions, respectively; an image extraction section that extracts a first image and a second image based on a predetermined condition from each of the moving images; a display section; and a display control section that performs control to simultaneously multi-display the first image and the second image of each moving image on the display section.
Claims15
A shooting apparatus, comprising:
- a shooting section that outputs images of an object;
- a moving image shooting control section that controls the shooting section to repeat shooting under a plurality of different predetermined shooting conditions at a predetermined frame rate in a multi-movie mode;
- a moving image generation section that generates a plurality of movies, each including moving images, based on a plurality of images previously shot under the predetermined shooting conditions, respectively;
- an image analysis section that analyzes, for each of the previously generated plurality of movies, brightness values of a plurality of colors of each of the plurality of images that form each of the previously generated plurality of movies;
- an image extraction section that extracts a first image and a second image from each of the plurality of previously generated movies based on the brightness value analysis by the image analyzing section;
- a display section;
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- a display control section that performs control to simultaneously multi-display the first image and the second image of each of the previously generated plurality of movies on the display section.
A method for controlling a shooting apparatus, comprising:
- a shooting step, by a shooting section under control of a moving image shooting control section, of repeating, at a predetermined frame rate, a first shooting substep of outputting images of an object under a first shooting condition, a second shooting substep of outputting images of the object under a second shooting condition, and a third shooting substep of outputting images of the object under a third shooting condition in a multi-movie mode;
- a moving image generation step, by a moving image generation section, of generating a first movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the first shooting substep, generating a second movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the second shooting substep, and generating a third movie based on a plurality of images previously shot in the third shooting substep;
- an image analysis step of analyzing, for each of the previously generated first, second and third movies, brightness values of a plurality of colors of each of the plurality of images that forms the previously generated first, second and third movies;
- an image extraction step, by an image extraction section, of extracting a first image and a second image from each of the previously generated first, second and third movies based on a result by the image analyzing section;
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- a display control step, by a display control section, of simultaneously multi-displaying the first image and the second image of each of the previously generated first, second and third movies on a display section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.