Patent ID: 11902650
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A notification method executed by an image capturing apparatus, comprising:
carrying out continuous shooting;
detecting, from a specific image obtained through the continuous shooting, a specific plurality of object classes, the object classes being organized hierarchically in a plurality of hierarchy levels according to a hierarchical structure in which an object class in a higher hierarchy level contains an object class in a lower hierarchy level, wherein the object class in the higher hierarchy level has a higher level of abstraction than the object class in the lower hierarchy level;
selecting, during the continuous shooting, a specific hierarchy level from the plurality of hierarchy levels on the basis of a predetermined selection criterion; and
notifying, during the continuous shooting, a user of one or more of the specific plurality of object classes detected from the specific image, with priority given to an object class belonging to the specific hierarchy level selected from the plurality of hierarchy levels,
wherein in a case where the specific plurality of object classes organized hierarchically is detected from the specific image, the notifying step notifies the user of the object class belonging to the specific hierarchy level selected in the selecting step, with priority given to the object class belonging to the specific hierarchy level,
wherein the specific hierarchy level is further selected on the basis of a user operation,
when an operation for zooming to a wide-angle side has been made during the continuous shooting, a hierarchy level higher than a hierarchy level selected a previous time is selected as the specific hierarchy level; and
when an operation for zooming to a telephoto side has been made during the continuous shooting, a hierarchy level lower than a hierarchy level selected a previous time is selected as the specific hierarchy level.