公开(公告)号：US20170374277A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-28

申请号：US15431104

申请日：2017-02-13

Applicant: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.

Inventor： Koki DOBASHI ,  Tsutomu TERAZAKI ,  Hiroyuki KATO

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/235 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/12 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06K9/00

CPC classification number: H04N5/23219 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/0094 ,  G05D1/12 ,  G06K9/00228 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  G06K9/32 ,  H04N5/23296 ,  H04N5/23299 ,  H04N5/2351 ,  H04N7/183 ,  H04N7/185

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus having a controlling unit, a propulsion unit for propulsion of the image pickup apparatus, and an image pickup unit which images plural subjects or a single subject. The controlling unit controls the propulsion unit to move the image pickup apparatus such that at least two out of the plural subjects and the image pickup unit do not interfere in position with each other, or such that the single subject and the image pickup unit do not interfere in position with each other. For instance, detecting a line of the plural subjects, the controlling unit controls the propulsion unit to move the image pickup apparatus to a position in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the detected line of the plural subjects, and instructs the image pickup unit to image the plural subjects or the single subject.