US 12,477,210 B2
Imaging device and control method of imaging device
Ayumi Sato, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/505,338.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-181608 (JP), filed on Nov. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0163545 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/62 (2023.01) [H04N 23/633 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging device, comprising:
a first button; and
at least one memory and at least one processor which function as:
a storing unit configured to store, in accordance with an instruction to record an image, a photographic setting of the imaging device during recording as a preset of the photographic setting, the storing unit being capable of storing a plurality of presets of photographic settings;
an assigning unit configured to assign, in accordance with a user operation, at least one of the plurality of photographic settings stored as presets to the first button, the assigning unit being capable of assigning the plurality of presets to the first button;
a control unit configured to (1) in a case where a number of presets assigned to the first button does not satisfy a predetermined condition, control so as to switch the photographic setting to be applied to the imaging device, each time the first button is depressed, between a photographic setting set to the imaging device before the first button is operated and the preset of the photographic setting assigned to the first button, and (2) in a case where the number of presets assigned to the first button satisfies the predetermined condition, control so as to switch the photographic setting to be applied to the imaging device, each time the first button is depressed, among the plurality of presets assigned to the first button, and further control so as not to switch to a photographic setting that was set to the imaging device before the first button is operated, in response to depression of the first button.