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Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2011
Applicants:

Tomohiko Murakami, Kunitachi, JP;

Yoshiyuki Kato, Higashiyamato, JP;

Inventors:

Tomohiko Murakami, Kunitachi, JP;

Yoshiyuki Kato, Higashiyamato, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/238 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a digital camera, in an automatic shooting stand-by state, when it is judged that an automatic shooting condition has not been satisfied, it is judged whether or not to issue an AE re-processing command (that is, it is judged whether or not the current shooting condition is similar to a condition where the automatic shooting condition is satisfied). When it is judged to issue the AE re-processing command, exposure tracking in an aperture-priority mode is performed, and shooting exposure conditions excluding the aperture value for still-image shooting in the aperture-priority mode are determined. Then, storage is updated. When it is judged that an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied, record processing for still-image shooting is performed with the updated shooting exposure conditions without changing the aperture value.


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