US 12,219,244 B2
Image capture apparatus and control method thereof
Kenta Ihara, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/168,035.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-025605 (JP), filed on Feb. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0269461 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/60 (2023.01); G03B 7/01 (2021.01); G03B 7/091 (2021.01); G03B 15/00 (2021.01); G03B 19/02 (2021.01); H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/64 (2023.01) [H04N 23/61 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capture apparatus with a pre-capture function for generating still image data pieces at a predetermined interval between detection of a first shooting instruction and detection of a second shooting instruction, the image capture apparatus comprising:
one or more processors that execute a program stored in a memory and thereby function as:
a control unit that determines, within a period in which the pre-capture function was performed, a period in which one or more still image data pieces generated through the pre-capture function are to be recorded in association with a still image data piece generated in response to the detection of the second shooting instruction, based on a difference between (i) a time of the detection of the first shooting instruction, or a shooting time of an image data piece selected by a user from among the still image data pieces generated through the pre-capture function, and (ii) a time of the detection of the second shooting instruction.