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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Satoshi Tsuchiya, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuuki Asano, Narashino, JP;
Shuhei Yoshikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Aiko Namikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
NIKON CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23216 (2013.01); H04N 5/225 (2013.01); H04N 5/2352 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject with an image sensor, the image sensor being configured to be able to set image-capturing conditions for a plurality of regions on an image-capturing surface; and a control unit that determines the image-capturing conditions varied for each of the regions, based on a subject element detected from the image captured by the image-capturing unit.