Examples for global motion suppression in an event-driven camera are described herein. In some examples, global motion of an event-driven camera is detected based on a plurality of pixels of an event-driven image sensor detecting events. The global motion may be suppressed by event-driven image sensor circuitry in response to detecting the global motion.

The present disclosure provides a following shoot method, a gimbal control method, a photographing apparatus, a handheld gimbal and a photographing system, the following shoot method includes: determining whether in a following preparation mode; if in the following preparation mode, displaying an area identifier; determining whether a target occurs in an image is a photographing target based on the area identifier; if the target is the photographing target, detecting a control operation of a manual control member by a user; controlling a following shoot mode to be start or end based on the control operation.

An image blur information acquisition apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first shake detection result from a first shake detection unit configured to detect a shake amount of an image capturing apparatus based on a motion vector, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a second shake detection result from a second shake detection sensor configured to detect a rotational angular velocity, and an estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of offset included in the second shake detection result, based on the first shake detection result and the second shake detection result, wherein the estimation unit is configured to set degree of change of estimation value by updating the offset amount based on a difference between the second shake detection result and the first shake detection result.

A light measurement processing unit controls the driving of a light measurement sensor in a plurality of drive modes. The light measurement processing unit performs light measurement calculation of obtaining the brightness of a subject when a first drive mode is set and calculation of detecting flicker of a photographed scene when a second drive mode is set. Furthermore, the light measurement processing unit performs calculation of detecting a motion vector of the subject between images of continuous frames in the first drive mode. A camera control unit determines a shutter speed by limiting a speed on a high speed side as compared to when flicker is not detected at the time of panning in light exposure control, when flicker is detected at the time of panning on the basis of the calculation result of the light measurement processing unit.

An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: acquire an image by image sensing processing; set a part of the image as a specific region, wherein a position of the specific region can be changed; and detect a motion of an object included in the specific region; and perform control to display an indicator based on the detected motion of the object in a direction corresponding to a movement direction of the electronic device so that the indicator is superimposed and displayed at a position on the image based on the specific region.

An imaging apparatus includes a motion detection unit that detects motions of panning, tilting, and camera-shake as motion information. A motion determination unit determines a motion occurring in the imaging apparatus as motion information. A highpass filter (HPF) removes a low-frequency component of a signal of the motion information and a lowpass filter (LPF) removes a high-frequency component of an output signal of the HPF. A swing-back detection unit detects a period in which a motion of swing-back occurs from an output signal of the LPF and a determination result of the motion determination unit A motion vector detection unit detects a motion vector between a plurality of input images. An image cutout unit performs a process of cutting out a partial image from an input image at a position at which the motion of swing-back is reduced during the period in which the motion of swing-back is determined to occur.

An image capturing device includes inclination detecting circuitry to detect an inclination from a reference position and output the inclination as angle data; feature point extracting circuitry to extract, based on both a reference position image and a current position image, respective feature points; amount of deviation calculating circuitry to calculate an inclination angle based on the angle data, and calculating an amount of deviation in pixels on the basis of the feature points; and correcting method determining circuitry to, when it is determined that the inclination angle is within a range in which the angle can be corrected, the range being equal to or greater than a lower limit and equal to or less than an upper limit, provide a correction instruction to make a correction to the inclination angle and then to make a fine adjustment to the inclination of the angle of view.

A camera control unit detects a subject using a first method, detects a subject using a second method different from the first method, displays a candidate for a correction position at which subject blur is corrected on an LCD based on each of a detection result obtained using the first method and a detection result obtained using the second method. The camera control unit and a lens control unit perform control of correcting the subject blur by driving a shift lens based on a correction position specified from among candidates.

A method for object tracking. The method includes capturing a sequence of images of a scene, detecting, by a hardware processor based on a pattern of local light change across the sequence of images, a light source in the scene, comparing, by the hardware processor in response to detecting the light source, a location of the light source in at least one image of the sequence of images and a target position within the at least one image to generate a result, and generating, by the hardware processor based on the result, a control signal for changing a field-of-view of a camera device such that the light source substantially aligns with the target position within the field-of-view, wherein the light source is configured to produce an object-identifying code.

A method and a device for stabilizing photographic equipment on a mobile device. The method includes: acquiring attitude information of the mobile device; determining an expected pitch angle of the photographic equipment; determining a driving force according to the expected pitch angle; and adjusting a pitch angle of the photographic equipment by adoption of the driving force.