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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2008
Shinya Sakamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yujin Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Sakamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Yujin Arai, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus having a shutter for making an image capturing element enter a light-shielded state or a light-unshielded state comprises an image capturing condition storing unit for storing a plurality of image capturing conditions, a dark-time image data storing unit for storing a plurality of pieces of dark-time image data captured with the image capturing element under the image capturing conditions in the light-shielded state, a bright-time image data storing unit for storing bright-time image data captured with the image capturing element in the light-unshielded state, a dark-time image data extracting unit for extracting a dark-time image captured under an image capturing condition corresponding to an image capturing condition under which the bright-time image is captured, and a correcting unit for correcting the bright-time image data based on the dark-time image data extracted by the dark-time image data extracting unit.