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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2023
Image capture apparatus capable of detecting flicker, method of controlling same, and storage medium
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Atsushi Sugawara, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/745 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 23/745 (2023.01); H04N 23/67 (2023.01);
Abstract
An image capture apparatus includes an image sensor that captures a subject image formed via a lens and outputs an image; and at least one processor or circuit configured to function as: a detection unit configured to detect flicker from the image output from the image sensor; and a control unit configured, in a case where, in an image capture time period in which images of a subject are being captured for flicker detection by the image sensor, the lens is driven in accordance with a drive operation that causes a change in an amount of light received by the image sensor, to adjust drive of the lens in the image capture time period.