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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2008
Applicant:
Kazunori Miyata, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kazunori Miyata, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A digital camera regards a part of a preceding photograph image as a guide image, and combines the guide image with a through image in shooting a succeeding photograph image. At this time, a transmittance of the guide image is set according to a luminance evaluation value at a time when the preceding photograph image is shot.