US 12,149,822 B2
Imaging apparatus, method for controlling imaging apparatus, and storage medium
Yutaka Suzuki, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/349,331.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-107018 (JP), filed on Jun. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400196 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/667 (2023.01) [H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/69 (2023.01); H04N 23/695 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
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1. A control apparatus comprising a computer executing instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the control apparatus to:
control, in a first mode, at least one of a pan, a tilt, and a zoom for an imaging unit in accordance with a user operation for operating the at least one of the pan, the tilt, and the zoom; wherein the first mode is a mode for controlling the at least one of the pan, the tilt, the zoom in accordance with the user operation,
detect a moving object as a tracking target object in an image captured by the imaging unit;
determine, on a basis of a position of the tracking target object detected from the image, whether the tracking target object within the image captured by the imaging unit has moved and entered a predetermined partial region from outside of the predetermined partial region within the image; wherein the predetermined partial region is a part of the image, and the predetermined partial region at least includes a coordinate of any of the upper, lower, left, and right ends of the image, and
in a case where it is determined that the tracking target object has entered the predetermined partial region in the first mode, automatically start controlling, without the user operation, at least one of the pan, the tilt, and the zoom for the imaging unit in accordance with a position of the tracking target object detected from the image captured by the imaging unit, so that a distance between the tracking target object and a center of the image captured by the imaging unit decreases.