Patent ID: 9277116
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G02B,G06F,G06K,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging device capable of performing image capturing and non-capturing operations, the imaging device comprising: an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts light received through an image capturing lens and generates image data; a display unit that displays an image related to the image data; a touch panel provided on the display unit and configured to perform input to receive a user-specified position for changing an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit; an angle-of-view setting unit that sets an angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit according to the input received by the touch panel; an angle-of-view change pattern setting unit that sets an angle-of-view change pattern, with respect to time, of the image displayed by the display unit according to the input received by the touch panel, to a first angle-of-view change pattern when the imaging device is not capturing an image and to a second angle-of-view change pattern, different from the first angle-of-view change pattern, when the imaging device is capturing an image; and a controller that gradually changes the angle of view of the image displayed by the display unit, with respect to time, using the set one of the first and second angle-of-view change patterns.