Sony patents camera settings tool that highlights differences between lenses
Sony has filed a patent for a software tool that displays a list of settings for multiple cameras. The system automatically compares these settings to find where they differ and highlights those differences on the screen.
In the filing’s own words
An information processing device includes a user interface control unit that performs control to cause a list of setting values of setting items related to a plurality of cameras to be displayed, to perform difference determination processing of setting values for each of common setting items related to a plurality of the cameras, and to cause display according to a difference determination result to be executed together with the list display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An information processing device comprising: a user interface control unit that performs control to cause a list of setting values of setting items related to a plurality of cameras to be displayed, to perform difference determination processing of setting values for each of common setting items related to a plurality of the cameras, and to cause display according to a difference determination result to be executed together with the list display.
Facts
- Company
- Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
- Official title
- INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
- Publication number
- US20260281537A1
- Application number
- 19167601
- Filed
- Mar 25, 2024
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 19
Classified under
H04N 23/62 Electricity & electronicsG06V 10/762 Physics & computingH04N 23/631 Electricity & electronicsMore from Sony in Cameras & imaging
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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