CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based on and claims priority pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 119(a) to Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-114184, filed on Jun. 20, 2019, in the Japan Patent Office, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND

Technical Field

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an image processing system and an image processing method.

Background Art

Image capturing devices, such as digital cameras, are known in the art to include an optical viewfinder and an image display, such as a liquid crystal panel. A user can observe both an optical image through an optical view finder (OVF) and the electronic captured image through an electronic view finder (EVF).

SUMMARY

The present disclosure provides an image capturing device and an image capturing method configured to perform display of a suitable view finder image (smooth and with no delay) even during continuous shooting. The image capturing device includes a movable mirror including a half mirror, and circuitry configured to set a superimposed display mode that superimposes and displays an optical image by a finder optical system and an electronic image by an image sensor, and a consecutive photographing mode, and control the movable mirror to rotate between (1) a mirror down position in which the mirror is inserted in a photographing optical path and reflects a subject light to a finder optical system and transmits the light to an image sensor, and (2) a mirror-up position in which the mirror is retracted from the photographing optical path and the light passes through the image sensor, wherein circuitry is further configured to prohibit the movable mirror from rotating to the mirror up position and maintain the mirror down position, when the superimposed display mode and the consecutive photographing mode are set.

