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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Takayama, Tokyo, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention makes it possible to suppress, to the greatest extent possible, a situation where, in an image capturing apparatus that captures images automatically, the apparatus misses capturing a video that a user wishes to capture. An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing unit for capturing an object image and outputting image data, a control unit for controlling whether or not to carry out an image capturing operation of recording the image data output by the image capturing unit, and an obtaining unit for obtaining information pertaining to a frequency of the image capturing operation, wherein the control unit changes a threshold for determining whether or not to carry out the image capturing operation in accordance with the information pertaining to the frequency and total image capturing time.
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