Imaging apparatus including a first imaging system and a second imaging system

摘要

An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging unit that respectively generates, with imaging devices different from one another, a first captured image with a specific direction of a subject set in a longitudinal direction, a second captured image with an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the specific direction set in a longitudinal direction and including a subject adjacent to one side of the orthogonal direction of the subject included in the first captured image, and a third captured image with the orthogonal direction set in a longitudinal direction and including a subject adjacent to the other side of the orthogonal direction of the subject included in the first captured image; a detecting unit that detects a state of the imaging apparatus; and a control unit that determines, based on the detected state, a range of a target image as a target of display or recording among the first to third captured images.

主权项

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an output unit including a first output unit being a display unit configured to display images, and a second output unit configured to record or transmit images; a first imaging system including a first lens and a first imaging device configured to generate a first captured image; a second imaging system including a second lens and a second imaging device configured to generate a second captured image; an imaging unit including the first and second imaging systems; an image combining unit configured to combine at least parts from the first and second captured images in order to generate a combined image; a housing including said imaging unit and said display unit; a detecting unit configured to detect whether the housing is set in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction as a state of the imaging apparatus; and a control unit configured to control a size of an output image output by said output unit on the basis of said detected state, wherein the control unit is configured to switch, on the basis of the detected state, a compound-eye imaging operation performed by using the plural imaging devices and a single-eye imaging operation performed by using the first imaging device, and the control unit is configured to determine that, when the single-eye imaging operation is switched to the compound-eye imaging operation, a clock of a predetermined frequency is used for the compound-eye imaging operation and, when the compound-eye imaging operation is switched to the single-eye imaging operation, a clock of a frequency lower than the predetermined frequency is used for the single-eye imaging operation.