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Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2020
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Osamu Harada, Sagamihara, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging apparatus including: a main image-capture unit; a sub-image-capture unit including an optical system and an image-capture element different from the main image-capture unit capturing an image of an image capturing range of the main image-capture unit and its peripheral region; and a display unit displaying, during live view, an image from the sub-image-capture unit and a recording region being an image capturing range of the main image-capture unit, wherein when the main object is in the recording region, the exposure of the sub-image-capture unit is controlled based on photometric information in the recording region, meanwhile when the main object is out of the recording region and there is a region including brightness exceeding a predetermined value outside the recording region, the exposure of the sub-image-capture unit is controlled to be reduced by a predetermined value, and an image output from the sub-image-capture unit is displayed in live view.


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