Patent ID: 9723221
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging device that shoots a common subject in synchronization with another imaging device, the imaging device comprising: an imaging section; a wireless processor; and a processor, wherein the imaging device and the another imaging device preliminarily shoots the common subject before synchronized shooting of the imaging devices is performed, and the processor (i) receives a state of the another imaging device shooting the common subject through the wireless processor, the state being given by the preliminary shooting, (ii) compares an own state of the imaging device shooting the common subject with the received state of the another imaging device, the own state of the imaging device being given by the preliminary shooting, (iii) determines whether the imaging device functions as a main device or a subordinate device for setting an imaging condition in accordance with a result of the comparison, and (iv) sends the own state of the imaging device shooting the common subject through the wireless processor to the another imaging device to allow the another imaging device to compare the states of the imaging devices including the sent state of the imaging device and to determine whether the another imaging device functions as the main device or the subordinate device for setting the imaging condition of the common subject, wherein, when the result of the comparison indicates that the own state of the imaging device shooting the common subject is more suitable for determining the imaging condition of the common subject than the state of the another imaging device, the processor determines that the imaging device functions as the main device, and otherwise determines that the imaging device functions as the subordinate device, wherein, when the processor determines that the imaging device functions as the main device, the processor sends imaging information acquired or determined by the imaging device for shooting the common subject to the subordinate device through the wireless processor, and wherein, when the processor determines that the imaging device functions as the subordinate device, the processor sets the imaging condition in the imaging device based on the imaging information received from the main device through the wireless processor and the imaging section images the common subject synchronously.