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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2004
Hiromi Someya, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Ishino, Tokyo, JP;
Hiromi Someya, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiki Ishino, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-taking apparatus and an image-taking system are disclosed which can protect the privacy of a person whose image is taken, and which can avoid the distribution of images of unnecessarily large data volumes. The image-taking apparatus includes an image-taking optical system, an image-pickup device, a controller which performs, by using the image-pickup device, image-taking in a first mode and in a second mode in which image-taking is carried out with more pixels or at a lower frame rate than in the first mode. The controller determines whether a condition relating to image-taking matches a predetermined restriction condition, and restricts image-taking in the second mode or distribution of an image taken in the second mode when that restriction condition is met.