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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yoshiro Udagawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Masato Ikeda, Higashikurume, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 ; H04N 5/225 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 ; H04N 5/225 ;
Abstract
An image sensing apparatus has a plurality of image sensing modes each of which performs image sensing operation using different pixel shifting method. One of these image sensing modes is selected through a selection unit in accordance with an object to be sensed, and a plurality of images of the object are sensed in image sensing position arrays on the basis of the selected image sensing mode. A combining unit combines the plurality of sensed images to obtain a single still image of high resolution.