Patent ID: 9143701
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A shooting posture specifying method for an imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an optical axis information detecting unit that detects, with a sensor, optical axis information indicating an inclination of the optical axis of the imaging unit, and an orthogonal axis information detecting unit that detects, with the sensor, orthogonal axis information indicating an inclination of an orthogonal axis perpendicular to the optical axis, the method comprising: executing imaging by the imaging unit; and specifying a shooting posture of an apparatus body at a time of imaging to be a vertical position shooting or a horizontal position shooting, based on the detected orthogonal axis information, on condition that the optical axis information indicating a predetermined inclination, from which the apparatus body can be determined to be in a particular posture, is detected by the optical axis information detecting unit, after the imaging by the imaging unit, wherein the inclination indicated by the orthogonal axis information which is detected by the orthogonal axis information detecting unit is independent from the inclination indicated by optical axis information which is detected by the optical axis information detecting unit, wherein the specifying comprises specifying the shooting posture of the apparatus body at the time of the imaging before a posture change to be the vertical position shooting, in a case where the inclination which is detected after the posture change and indicated by the orthogonal axis information is greater than a predetermined inclination at which the orthogonal axis can be regarded as substantially corresponding to a horizontal line.