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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shingo Isobe, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/20 (2006.01); H04N 5/243 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/57 (2006.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); H04N 5/20 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 5/243 (2013.01); H04N 5/3454 (2013.01); H04N 5/3535 (2013.01); H04N 5/57 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus capable of reading a signal in a partial region from an image sensor is configured to input a setting value for a region of interest; control accumulation and readout processing for the image sensor based on the setting value; detect a contrast of the region of interest based on an image capturing signal; and emphasize the contrast of the region of interest based on a result of the detected contrast with respect to the image capturing signal.