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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2020
Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kei Kakidani, Tokyo, JP;
SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Mitigation of a discomfort of a user during brightness adjustment switching and curbing of deterioration in operability with respect to brightness adjustment are promoted while curbing of resolution decrease due to execution of only optical brightness adjustment is promoted. A switching unit that performs, in response to change in an indication value indicating the brightness of a captured image obtained by an imaging device, switching between optical brightness adjustment that is brightness adjustment according to an iris and electronic brightness adjustment that is brightness adjustment according to application of a gain depending on the indication value to the captured image, and a first delay unit that delays change in the gain with respect to change in the indication value in the electronic brightness adjustment are included.