PHOTOGRAPHING APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD

• Main Author: TANAKA TAKAOMI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.12.2011
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a photographing apparatus which correlates a photographing process to a picture image when taking a photograph underwater.SOLUTION: A photographing apparatus capable of taking a photograph underwater includes an imaging part (210) to obtain picture image data; a pressure sensor (262) to detect pressure to be applied to the photographing apparatus; a detector (270) to detects whether the photographing apparatus is placed underwater or in the air; and a controller (100) to create an image file based on the picture image data. The controller creates pressure data in time sequence by measuring output of the pressure sensor at a predetermined interval, when detecting the first state where the photographing apparatus is placed underwater from the air by using the output from the detector, and correlates the image file created over the states from the first state to the second state with the pressure data in time sequence to record the file onto a storage part when detecting the second state where the photographing apparatus is placed in the air from underwater by using the output from the detector.