Image Capture Apparatus Display Area Adjustment for Continuous Shooting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image capturing apparatuses experience unnatural display when switching between images of different resolutions during continuous shooting, leading to decreased trackability and display quality due to differences in angles of view between live view and still images.
Innovation Solution
An image capture apparatus that reads out images from an image capture element with different pixel densities and adjusts the display area of one image to match the other, ensuring consistent viewing angles by employing a readout unit, display unit, and adjustment unit to synchronize the display areas of images with varying pixel counts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If images with different resolutions are consecutively displayed on a display apparatus during continuous shooting, then trackability with respect to a primary object is improved, but differences in angles of view between images occur causing an unnatural display
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by adjusting the display area of images based on their resolution characteristics. Specifically, when a low-resolution image is detected, its display area is reduced compared to high-resolution images, thereby standardizing the angle of view across different image types while maintaining continuous display for trackability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of display areas based on image resolution type. The display control unit dynamically determines whether to reduce the display area of low-resolution images compared to high-resolution images, allowing the system to adaptively maintain consistent angles of view while continuously displaying images for trackability.
2Ease of operation
If the display area of low-resolution images is reduced to match the angle of view of high-resolution images, then display naturalness is improved, but the display time interval may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the display area parameter dynamically based on image resolution. By reducing the display area of low-resolution images to match the angle of view of high-resolution images, the system maintains display naturalness without requiring increased display time intervals, as the adjustment is made within the existing display framework.
3Productivity
If images are displayed in real-time during continuous shooting, then productivity is improved, but differences in exposure and signal readout conditions cause angle of view variations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by adjusting the display area of images according to their resolution and exposure conditions. This allows real-time display of images with different exposure and readout conditions while maintaining consistent angles of view through dynamic display area modification.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the display control unit detects the resolution type of each image and automatically adjusts its display area accordingly. This feedback-based control ensures that angles of view remain consistent across images with different exposure and signal readout conditions during real-time continuous shooting display.
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AI summary
An image capturing apparatus is provided with: an image capture element; a readout unit configured to readout, from the image capture element, a first image corresponding to a portion of a first number of pixels and a second image corresponding to a portion of a second number of pixels that is smaller than the first number of pixels, a display unit configured to display by switching between the first image and the second image; and an adjustment unit configured to, if a display area of the first image in the display unit differs to a display area of the second image in the display unit, adjust one of the first image and the second image so that the display area of the first image matches the display area of the second image.