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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2010
Kunihiro Shirai, Yokohama, JP;
Kunihiro Shirai, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus capable of forming a corrected image which does not give a feeling of wrongness to a user. In the apparatus, an image pickup element photoelectrically converts an optical image to output the same as image data. A target correction value is calculated for correcting image quality degradation due to a lens unit, based on lens characteristic information and a status of the lens unit. A system controller sets a rate of change to stepwise make the current correction value closer to the target correction value, and repeatedly calculates the correction value according to the target correction value and the rate of change. The image data is corrected based on the repeatedly calculated correction value. The rate of change is changed depending on the relationship between a preceding value of the correction value calculated in the past and the target correction value.