US 9,426,372 B2Granted

Imaging device and imaging method

AssigneeOlympus Corporation

InventorsManabu Ichikawa, Yoichiro Okumura

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Abstract

An imaging device, capable of shooting a combined photograph that is a single image made up of a plurality of images, and capable of live view display, comprises a first display section, a second display section, an imaging section for converting a subject image to image data, an image processing section for subjecting the image data to image processing, and a combined photograph processing section, for combining a plurality of image data subjected to image processing by the image processing section to create a single image, wherein, when a live view image is to be displayed on the first display section an image that has been subjected to processing by the combined photograph processing section is displayed, while when a live view image is to be displayed on the second display section an image that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing section is displayed.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An imaging device, capable of shooting a combined photograph that is a single image made up of a plurality of images, and that is capable of live view display, comprising:

a first display section,
a second display section that is different from the first display section,
an imaging section for converting a subject image to image data and outputting the image data,
an image processing section for subjecting the image data to image processing, and
a combined photograph processing section, for combining at least one image that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing section and a live view image that has been repeatedly formed by the imaging section, and carrying out second image processing that is different to the image processing, to create a single image, wherein,
when a live view image, repeatedly formed by the imaging section, is displayed on the first display section, an image that has been subjected to processing by the combined photograph processing section is displayed,
when a live view image, repeatedly formed by the imaging section, is displayed on the second display section, an image that has been subjected to image processing by the image processing section is displayed;
and
the second image processing carried out by the combined photograph processing section carries out at least one image processing of color change so that a peak of color distribution of images to be combined becomes an average of peak values of images to be combined, or brightness change so that brightness distribution of images to be combined becomes an average value of images to be combined.

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Facts

Application: 14/104,361Filed 12 Dec 2013
Priority: JP 2012-27972621 Dec 2012
Published: US 2014/0176775 A126 Jun 2014
Granted: 23 Aug 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04N 23/63
Control of cameras or camera modules: by using electronic viewfinders
H04N 5/2624
Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the…: for…
H04N 23/531
Of electronic viewfinders, e.g. rotatable or detachable: being rotatable or detachable
H04N 23/672
Focus control based on electronic image sensor signals: based on the phase difference signals