US 11,729,487 B2
Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor
Nobushige Wakamatsu, Tokyo (JP); Shinnosuke Osawa, Yokohama (JP); Ryota Ogawa, Kawasaki (JP); Yuki Tsuihiji, Yokohama (JP); and Yusuke Shimizu, Kawasaki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/371,437.
Application 17/371,437 is a continuation of application No. 16/830,028, filed on Mar. 25, 2020, granted, now 11,102,389.
Application 16/830,028 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/034818, filed on Sep. 20, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-188938 (JP), filed on Sep. 28, 2017; application No. 2017-254231 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2017; and application No. 2018-053078 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0337100 A1, Oct. 28, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); G03B 17/02 (2021.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01); H04N 23/68 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01); G03B 15/00 (2021.01); G03B 17/56 (2021.01); G03B 5/00 (2021.01); G03B 7/091 (2021.01); H04N 23/51 (2023.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); H04N 23/58 (2023.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/60 (2023.01) [H04N 23/56 (2023.01); G03B 17/02 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an imaging unit configured to output image data; and
one or more processors and/or circuitry which functions as:
a control unit configured to control a direction of the imaging unit so that the imaging unit is directed to a subject;
a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject in the image data output by the imaging unit; and
a state acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a holding state of the imaging apparatus among a plurality of holding states including at least one of a state where the imaging apparatus is placed to capture an image, a state where the imaging apparatus is held by a hand, a state where the imaging apparatus is hung from a neck, and a state where the imaging apparatus is wearable,
wherein the control unit is configured to set a change range in which the direction of the imaging unit is changed based on the information about the holding state of the imaging apparatus acquired by the state acquisition unit.