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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2008
Kohei Fukugawa, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Tsujino, Osaka, JP;
Kohei Fukugawa, Osaka, JP;
Kazuhiro Tsujino, Osaka, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi, JP;
Abstract
A camera includes an image sensor, and a plurality of metering areas are assigned to an object scene captured by the image sensor. A CPU evaluates a luminance of the object scene for each metering area, and binarizes each of the plurality of obtained luminance evaluated values. Furthermore, on the basis of the plurality of binarized luminance evaluated values, a width of a high luminance area included in the object scene is calculated while a width of an adjacent area adjacent to the high luminance area out of a low luminance area included in the object scene is calculated. Then, each of the plurality of luminance evaluated values is corrected on the basis of a ratio between the width of the calculated adjacent area and the width of the calculated high luminance area. An exposure amount to the image sensor is adjusted on the basis of the luminance evaluated values thus corrected.