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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1992
Toshiyuki Akimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuro Yamazaki, Tachikawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A television camera device having an image pickup structure, with a plurality of control units, for producing an optimum image output signal that (i) corresponds to a received object image (ii) is in accordance with one of a plurality of predetermined image pickup environments. The device includes a memory for storing scene files which contain image pickup control data for the plurality of the predetermined image pickup environments, and a mode setting structure for selecting a particular scene file from the scene files stored in the memory. Further, the device includes a timer operatable in response to the selection of a scene file by the mode setting structure, and an operation structure, coupled to the image pickup structure, the memory, the mode setting structure, and the timer. The operation structure sequentially outputs to the image pickup structure intermediate image pickup control data which is between the control data of the pre-selection scene file and the control data of the post-selection scene file. The operation structure changes the intermediate control data is discrete increments at a frequency determined by the timer when the scene file is selected by the mode setting structure.