Patent ID: 8933996
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A multiple viewpoint imaging control device comprising: an imaging section that images an image; a moving image display section that displays on a display screen a moving image for determining an imaging image angle; a ranging section that performs provisional imaging of a specific subject included in the moving image displayed at the moving image display section, and that measures at least a distance to the specific subject; an acquisition section that, when imaging is to be performed from a plurality of imaging viewpoints, acquires a convergence angle between the imaging viewpoints; a viewpoint number setting section that sets a number of viewpoints, including at least an imaging start point at which imaging is initially performed and an imaging end point at which imaging is finally performed; a position information computation section that computes position information including a movement amount of a viewpoint from the imaging start point at which imaging is initially performed to the imaging end point at which imaging is finally performed, on a basis of data of the convergence angle and data of the distance from a ranging point to the specific subject measured by the ranging section, such that a viewpoint at a position of provisional imaging is at a middle of the movement amount; a notification section that, on a basis of the position information computed by the position information computation section, executes a notification prompting that a viewpoint be moved from the ranging point to the imaging start point and a notification prompting that a viewpoint be moved from the imaging start point to the imaging end point; an automatic imaging execution control section that automatically images the subject at an imaging viewpoint; a judgment section that, in accordance with the movement of a viewpoint, uses the imaging start point as a reference image and judges whether or not the device is at a viewpoint that should be imaged, on a basis of a comparison between the reference image and an image imaged after movement, the automatic imaging execution control section automatically imaging the subject at an imaging viewpoint when it is judged by the judgment section that the device is at the imaging viewpoint; and a storage section that stores image data imaged by the automatic imaging execution control section as an element data.