US 12,452,517 B2
Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
Takaaki Fukui, Chiba (JP); and Takashi Kawakami, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/966,933.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-173015 (JP), filed on Oct. 22, 2021; and application No. 2022-038690 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0126836 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/68 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/611 (2023.01) [H04N 23/6842 (2023.01); H04N 23/687 (2023.01); H04N 23/698 (2023.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
an image pickup unit configured to pick up a wide-angle image;
a face direction detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face of a user;
a user movement detection unit configured to detect a movement of the user;
a memory device that stores a set of instructions; and
at least one processor that executes the set of instructions to:
detect at least one of movements including a vertical movement of the face and a horizontal movement of the face based on an output of the face direction detection unit;
determine at least one of extraction conditions including a position and a size of an extraction image extracted from the wide-angle image based on the direction of the face detected, the at least one of movements detected, and a detection result of the user movement detection unit;
detect stability of the at least one of movements;
decrease a moving amount of the position of the extraction image gradually in a case where the stability of the at least one of movements is detected; and
extract the extraction image from the wide angle image with the at least one of extraction conditions determined.