US 11,750,921 B2
Image pickup apparatus capable of performing function change, and control method for image pickup apparatus
Tatsuya Hanayama, Tokyo (JP); Masayoshi Shibata, Kanagawa (JP); Yusuke Toriumi, Tokyo (JP); and Takuya Sakamaki, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/667,219.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-023507 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0263999 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/663 (2023.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/663 (2023.01) [G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); H04M 1/0264 (2013.01); H04N 23/54 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04M 2250/04 (2013.01); H04M 2250/12 (2013.01); H04M 2250/52 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image pickup apparatus, to which a mounting component part having a wireless IC tag can be attached, comprising:
at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as following units;
a reading unit configured to read information recorded in the wireless IC tag;
an attitude determination unit configured to determine an attitude of the mounting component part, which is attached, with respect to the image pickup apparatus; and
a function changing unit configured to change a function of the image pickup apparatus, and
wherein an opening portion is formed so as to face an image pickup lens of the image pickup apparatus when the mounting component part is attached to the image pickup apparatus, and
in a case that the reading unit can read the information recorded in the wireless IC tag, the function changing unit changes the function of the image pickup apparatus according to the attitude of the mounting component part, which is determined.