Patent ID: 9489979
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising; a photographic scene selection section that selects a photographic scene; a storage section that independently stores, a photographing parameter relating to time-lapse photography that captures images at a predetermined interval and generates a moving image of a shorter playback time than a photographing time, and a value of a playback parameter relating to playing of a time-lapse moving image for each photographic scene, respectively, and a parameter setting section that reads and sets a value of the playback parameter stored in the storage section according to the photographic scene selected by way of the photographic scene selection section, wherein the storage section further independently stores, among types of the photographing parameters, each of photographing parameters relating to time and photographing parameters relating to image quality, wherein the parameter setting section reads and further sets a value of the photographing parameter relating to time and a value of the photographing parameter relating to image quality stored in the storage section according to a photographic scene selected by the photographic scene selection section when capturing a time-lapse moving image, and wherein the image processing apparatus further comprises an image capture control section that performs control of image capture of the time-lapse moving image at values of the photographing parameters set by way of the parameter setting section, and wherein the storage section further stores whether to fix a tracking method of the photographing parameter or a value causing a tracking speed to change relating to image quality during time-lapse photography, and wherein the parameter setting section further reads and sets whether to fix the tracking method of the photographing parameter or the value causing the tracking speed to change relating to image quality during time-lapse photography stored in the storage section according to the photographic scene selected by the photographic scene selection section.