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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shingo Tatsumi, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348254 ; 358455 ;
Abstract
In an image pickup apparatus arranged to carry out a predetermined signal processing action including a gamma correction process on a signal outputted from an image sensor and to invert the signal during the process of the signal processing action, a varying circuit is arranged to vary a gamma value to be used for the gamma correction process.