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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1993
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1992
Shigeru Jinnai, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image sensing apparatus for sensing an image of an object and for forming and outputting a color image signal corresponding to the sensed image of the object, in which at the time of adjustment of levels of color signal components of the color image signal formed by sensing the object, a level adjusting range of the color signal component of the color image signal is controlled on the basis of one kind of control information data depending on the level of the color signal component of the color image signal, among a plurality of kinds of control information data provided for setting a plurality of kinds of level adjusting ranges of said color signal component. This arrangement ensures proper white balance adjustment at any time, irrespective of the condition of the object.