US 11,930,265 B2
Photographing apparatus, photographing method, and storage medium having program stored therein
Teito Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); Masatoshi Takeda, Tokyo (JP); and Ryo Hachiya, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/435,495
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 6, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/009582
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/179898, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-041795 (JP), filed on Mar. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0141380 A1, May 5, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/611 (2023.01); G03B 15/03 (2021.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/611 (2023.01) [G03B 15/03 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A photographing apparatus comprising:
a camera;
a light-emitter provided in the vicinity of the camera;
a motion sensor that detects a photographic subject;
at least one memory configured to store instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
control light emission of the light-emitter in accordance with a first mode for drawing the photographic subject's attention towards the camera by blinking the light-emitter when the photographic subject is detected;
detect that a photograph-taking timing has arrived when an interocular distance of the photographic subject, being made to face the camera by controlling the light emission in accordance with the first mode, in an image generated by the camera in accordance with the first mode becomes at least a prescribed distance; and
control light emission of the light-emitter, at the photograph-taking timing, in accordance with a second mode in which a light emission intensity is higher than in the first mode.