Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus and imaging method
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Application No.: US13213136Application Date: 2011-08-19
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Publication No.: US09774830B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Toshiyasu Sugio
- Applicant: Toshiyasu Sugio
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-184600 20100820
- Main IPC: G02B7/04
- IPC: G02B7/04 ; G02B7/06 ; G02B7/09 ; H04N7/18 ; H04N5/232

Abstract:
An imaging apparatus appropriately determines a zoom angle of view in the case where the imaging apparatus is worn on the head of a user, and the imaging apparatus is worn on the head of the user, including a sight line direction detection unit which detects sight line direction of the user, a zoom angle determination unit which determines a zoom angle of view such that the zoom angle of view becomes smaller as variations in the sight line direction decrease, and an imaging unit which captures an image of a subject according to the determined zoom angle of view.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120044347A1 IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2012-02-23
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