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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2002
Applicant:
Hiroshi Matsushima, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Matsushima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention provides an image sensing apparatus and method, which can independently calculate and display the histograms of the entire range and selected range of image data sensed by an image sensing element. In an image sensing apparatus of this invention, a microcomputer () calculates the histogram of the entire area of image data sensed by an image sensing element (), and that of image data of an area selected by an operation member () which is used to select a photometry mode, and identifiably displays these calculation results on an EVF () via circuits from a video signal processing circuit () to an EVF driving circuit.