Patent ID: 8570422
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A photographing apparatus, comprising: an imaging unit to acquire live view data and actually-photographed image data representing a subject; a scene recognition unit to analyze the live view data acquired by the imaging unit and recognize a plurality of scenes representing the subject; a photographing mode selection unit comprising a database of a correspondence relationship between scene recognition results and corresponding photographing modes defining photographing conditions for the imaging unit, and selecting a plurality of photographing modes corresponding to the plurality of scenes recognized by the scene recognition unit based on the correspondence relationship of the database; a recording unit to record the plurality of photographing modes selected by the photographing mode selecting unit for each actually-photographed image data when the actually photographed image data are obtained, correlated with the actually-photographed image data acquired by the imaging unit; a photographing mode specifying unit to specify a photographing mode for playing back the recorded actually-photographed image data; and a playback controlling unit to search out, from the recording unit, all the recorded actually-photographed image data which are correlated with the photographing mode specified by the photographing mode specifying unit and to control playback such that the searched-out actually-photographed image data are played back, the imaging unit carrying out continuous shooting operations for a number of images captured in the continuous shooting operations that is equal to a number of photographing modes selected by the photographing mode selection unit, to obtain a plurality of sets of the actually photographed image data, and the recording unit recording each of the plurality of the actually photographed image data obtained by the imaging unit, correlated with all of the plurality of photographing modes selected by the photographing mode selection unit.