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Title:
IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF AND RECORDING MEDIUM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013225844
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To realize photography control technology which, without the need for switching drive modes, can easily switch between photography, such as bulb photography, which responds to an operation period depending on a difference in operation method in the same drive mode and photography, such as time photography, which separately instructs the start and the end of photographing.

An image pickup device comprises: image pickup means; touch detection means for detecting a touch operation performed on a button and a touch panel; and control means which, when an operation performed on the button is accepted in a specific drive mode, controls the image pickup means so as to take a photograph for a period corresponding to the duration of the operation continued, or controls the image pickup means so as to start taking a photograph in the specific drive mode according to an operation performed on the touch panel and stop taking the photograph when the touch panel is detected to have been released temporarily and then touched again.


Inventors:
KAMEYAMA MAKOTO
YOSHIDA KOJI
Application Number:
JP2013029437A
Publication Date:
October 31, 2013
Filing Date:
February 18, 2013
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
H04N5/225; G03B9/62; G03B17/02; G06F3/041; G06F3/048
Domestic Patent References:
JP2010068288A2010-03-25
JP2011211487A2011-10-20
JPH1169214A1999-03-09
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasunori Otsuka
Shiro Takayanagi
Yasuhiro Otsuka
Shuji Kimura
Osamu Shimoyama
Nagakawa Yukimitsu