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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2005
Keiichi Mori, Tokyo, JP;
Sumito Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenichi Nakajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a digital camera that is capable of capturing a picture in which the brightness between a main subject and a nighttime background are well balanced. When an image capture instruction is received while a night scene portrait mode is set, in a pixel addition output mode, an image sensoris set to a high sensitivity state by performing pixel addition, and outputs low resolution non-flash image data. Further, in an overall pixel output mode, the image sensoroutputs high resolution flash image data in a low sensitivity state without performing pixel addition. Next, a resolution conversion circuitconverts a resolution of non-flash image data to be equivalent to a resolution of flash image data. Then, an image combining circuitadds respective pixel values of corresponding pixels in the non-flash image data and the flash image data having the same resolution and combines both sets of image data to generate image data for recording.