US 11,689,807 B2
Image capture apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium for improving an operation of moving a focal point detection region
Kentarou Midorikawa, Yokohama (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/832,585.
Claims priority of application No. JP2019-072164 (JP), filed on Apr. 4, 2019; and application No. JP2019-239285 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0322541 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/675 (2023.01) [H04N 23/632 (2023.01); H04N 23/635 (2023.01); H04N 23/671 (2023.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capture apparatus comprising:
an operation device according to which a focal point detection region on a screen can be moved through a movement operation performed by a user, the operation device being able to be operated by a thumb of a hand holding a first grip portion which is arranged along a first side of a first surface of the image capture apparatus;
a finder according to which the user can observe a subject image by looking into the finder;
a display device for displaying the subject image, the display device being provided on a rear surface of the image capture apparatus; and
at least one processor or circuit configured to function as:
a control unit configured to perform control such that a movement amount of the focal point detection region on the screen with respect to a first operation amount of the operation device in a case of performing shooting while viewing the display device is greater than a movement amount of the focal point detection region on the screen with respect to the first operation amount of the operation device in a case of performing shooting while viewing the finder,
wherein the operation device is an optical tracking pointer which is able to detect, by employing infrared light scheme, a touch operation and a slide operation of a finger to the optical tracking pointer and the optical tracking pointer is incorporated in an Auto Focus (AF) ON button for instructing to start an AF operation, and wherein the operation device is arranged in between the display device and the first grip portion on the rear surface of the image capture apparatus.