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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 15, 2009
Tomohiko Murakami, Kunitachi, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kato, Higashiyamato, JP;
Tomohiko Murakami, Kunitachi, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kato, Higashiyamato, JP;
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a digital camera, in an automatic shooting stand-by state, when judged at Step Sthat an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied (N at Step S), whether or not to issue an AE re-processing command is judged. In other words, whether or not the current shooting condition is similar to a condition where an automatic shooting condition is satisfied is judged. When judged to issue the AE re-processing command, exposure tracking in an aperture-priority mode is performed (S), and shooting exposure conditions excluding the aperture value for still-image shooting in the aperture-priority mode are determined. Then, the storage is updated (Step), and the process returns to Step S. When judged at Step Sthat an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied (Y at Step S), record processing for still-image shooting is performed with the updated shooting exposure conditions without changing the aperture value (Step S).