IMAGING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: HIGASHIYAMA TERUYUKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.09.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS BASED ON SPECIFIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To provide an imaging apparatus capable of automatically capturing a still image with proper timing according to a situation, during capturing a moving image.SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus comprises: a first imaging unit which captures an image of a subject side; a second imaging unit which captures an image of a photographer side; a determination unit which determines whether the emotion of the photographer has changed by a predetermined degree or more on the basis of an image captured by the second imaging unit; and a control unit which controls the first imaging unit to capture a still image in a case where the determination unit determines that the emotion of the photographer has changed by the predetermined degree or more, during capturing a moving image by the first imaging unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】動画の撮影中において、状況に応じた適切なタイミングで自動的に静止画を撮影することができる撮像装置を提供する。【解決手段】被写体側を撮影する第１の撮像部と、撮影者側を撮影可能な第２の撮像部と、第２の撮像部で撮影した画像から撮影者の感情が所定以上変化したか否かを判定する判定部と、第１の撮像部による動画像の撮影中に、判定部により撮影者の感情が所定以上変化したと判定された場合に、第１の撮像部で静止画像を撮影するように制御する制御部とを備える。【選択図】図４