Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof
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Application No.: US14929968Application Date: 2015-11-02
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Publication No.: US09794465B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Satoshi Ashitani
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-228714 20141111
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N21/431 ; G08B13/196

Abstract:
A network camera includes a pan driving unit and a tilt driving unit for changing a shooting direction of an imaging unit. A detection unit detects rotation angles of movable units to be driven by the pan driving unit and the tilt driving unit. A pan/tilt control unit corrects a target position of the movable unit according to a correction value according to the detected rotation angle and controls each of the driving units using a value after the correction. In addition, when masked image drawing for processing an image is performed so that a partial image of a predetermined position is not visible in the image captured by an imaging unit, an image processing unit performs a process of correcting a rotation angle detected by the detection unit according to the correction value and drawing a masked image at a mask drawing position after the correction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160134801A1 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2016-05-12
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