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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:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
May. 27, 2010
Applicant:
Francisco Imai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Francisco Imai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 7/00 (2014.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image-capturing device and associated method for selective exposure adjustment of an image, wherein, image data of a scene is acquired, the scene is displayed on d display unit, the scene is divided into a plurality of regions, and a level of exposure is chosen for at least one region from the plurality of regions.