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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 08, 2019
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Teruhiko Ueyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing device, a photometry unit; and an exposure control unit, wherein, when a wide-angle image is acquired, the photometry unit divides the wide-angle image into a plurality of regions, and acquires a first photometric result of a first photometric region and a second photometric result of a second photometric region, the first photometric region and the second photometric region being obtained by bringing adjacent predetermined regions together, when a wide-angle image is acquired, the exposure control unit controls an exposure based on at least the first photometric result and the second photometric result, and the first photometric region is constituted by a region included in the second photometric region and a region that is not included in the second photometric region.