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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2011
Applicants:

Keiichi Sakurai, Akishima, JP;

Takaaki Yui, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Keiichi Sakurai, Akishima, JP;

Takaaki Yui, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image pickup apparatus is provided which informs a user of a state of brightness adjusting operation and which has excellent usability for the user. Disclosed is a digital camera including an image adderfor synthesizing a plurality of continuously taken image frames to produce a synthesized image, an image processing apparatusfor executing image brightness adjusting processing for synthesizing a required synthesis number of image frames and adjusting brightness of the synthesized image at the time of continuous picture-taking of a subject, and a display device for displaying an image which is being synthesized by the image adder in the image brightness adjusting processing.


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