Patent ID: 9113064
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup portion; a recording portion that records an image signal based on an output signal from the image pickup portion; a determination portion that determines whether or not the image pickup apparatus is in a no-finder state in which a photographer performs shooting without confirming a display screen, based on an optical sensor output, an acceleration sensor output, and the image signal; a posture detection portion that detects a posture change of the image pickup apparatus responsive to a determination that the image pickup apparatus is in the no-finder state; and a control portion that (1) causes the image pickup portion to start a continuous shooting operation and acquires a series of plural image signals responsive to detecting the posture change of the image pickup apparatus based on an output signal of the posture detection portion, and (2) performs panorama synthesis processing for generating a panorama image by selectively joining images represented by the series of plural image signals based on the series of plural image signals acquired with the continuous shooting operation.