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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2020
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshitaka Sasaki, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2352 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control method for generating a high quality HDR image is provided. A control device of the technique of this disclosure is a control device configured to control an image capturing element capable of controlling an exposure condition for each of areas, the device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an exposure value map obtained by preliminary exposure using the image capturing element; and a setting unit configured to set the exposure condition including a shutter speed and an ISO sensitivity for each of the areas based on the exposure value map.