US 12,394,092 B2
Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, calibrator, control methods therefor, and storage media storing control programs therefor
Takaaki Fukui, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/397,080.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-000730 (JP), filed on Jan. 5, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0233181 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/80 (2017.01) [H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 17/002 (2013.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01); G06T 2207/30196 (2013.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image pickup apparatus to be worn on a body part of a user other than a head of the user, the image pickup apparatus comprising:
a first image pickup unit that obtains a wide-angle image;
a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and
at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to:
detect a visual-line direction of the user;
set an observation direction of the first image pickup unit to be parallel to the visual-line direction;
obtain an image extraction position from the wide-angle image;
detect an object in the observation direction from the wide-angle image in picking up an image of the object;
detect an object distance from the first image pickup unit to the object;
correct the image extraction position according to the visual-line direction and the object distance; and
output and record a corrected image extraction position to a memory.