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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Daisuke Satou, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Ueda, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Minakuti, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 9/68 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/643 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 9/68 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an image analysis unit obtaining brightness information for respective hue regions from an image signal of a picked-up image and an exposure control unit carrying out exposure control based on the brightness information obtained in the image analysis unit.