Imaging apparatus and imaging method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTsubasa Tsukahara, Kazuyuki Yamamoto
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Abstract
Provided is an imaging apparatus including: an imaging unit; a display unit, through which at least a part of an imaging region of the imaging unit can be seen in a see-through manner and which is configured to display a stereoscopic image formed of a left eye image and a right eye image; a focal distance adjustment unit configured to adjust a focal distance of the imaging unit; and a display controller configured to generate the left eye image and the right eye image such that a display object indicating the focal distance is seen at a depth position corresponding to the focal distance and cause the display unit to display the left eye image and the right eye image.
Claims15
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- an imaging unit configured to image a real subject included in an imaging region;
- a display unit configured to display a stereoscopic display image formed of a left eye image and a right eye image in at least one see-through display;
- a focal distance adjustment unit configured to adjust a focal distance of the imaging unit;
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- a display controller configured to control the display unit to:
- increase a size of a stereoscopic display object as a virtual image position of the stereoscopic display object approaches closer to the imaging apparatus, wherein the virtual image position corresponds to the focal distance;
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- at least partially overlap the stereoscopic display object on the real subject when seen through the at least one see-through display.
An imaging method, comprising:
- adjusting a focal distance of an imaging unit;
- increasing a size of a stereoscopic display object as a virtual image position of the stereoscopic display object approaches closer to an imaging apparatus, wherein the virtual image position corresponds to the focal distance;
- displaying a stereoscopic display image formed of the left eye image and the right eye image in at least one see-through display;
- imaging a real subject by the imaging unit;
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- at least partially overlapping the stereoscopic display object on the real subject when seen through the at least one see-through display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.