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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Akira Kubota, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Akira Kubota, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01);
Abstract
Receiving an instruction from a user to start sensing a still image, an image sensing apparatus performs scene determination based on an evaluation value of scene determination from an image sensed immediately after the luminance of the image converges to a predetermined range of a target luminance. The image sensing apparatus can accurately determine a scene of the image even the image sensor with a narrow dynamic range.