IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL APPARATUS

• Main Authors: SUZUKI YASUO, YAMAMOTO YUKI, IWATA TAKUYA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 30.10.2024
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To provide an imaging apparatus capable of suppressing a tracking lost of a subject in automatic tracking and photographing.SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus comprises: an imaging unit which acquires image data based on light from an optical system; a rotation driving unit which changes the orientation of the imaging unit; a detection unit which detects information on a subject from the image data; a determination unit which determines the velocity of the subject; and a control unit which on the basis of the information on the subject, controls the rotation driving unit and a zooming unit which changes a field angle of imaging by the imaging unit. The control unit restricts a control amount of the zooming unit based on the velocity of the subject.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】自動追尾撮影する際に被写体の追尾ロストを抑制可能な撮像装置を提供すること。【解決手段】撮像装置は、光学系からの光に基づいて画像データを取得する撮像部と、撮像部の向きを変更する回転駆動部と、画像データから被写体に関する情報を検出する検出部と、被写体の速度を判定する判定部と、被写体に関する情報に基づいて、回転駆動部と、撮像部が撮像する画角を変更するズーム部とを制御する制御部とを有し、制御部は、被写体の速度に基づいて、ズーム部の制御量を制限する。【選択図】図１