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Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshitaka Takeuchi, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 9/67 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 9/67 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/23232 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides a digital camera which can overlay a plurality of images in multiple exposure shooting without intermingling with each other. A digital camera includes an image sensor constituted by a color filter for a plurality of color components, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject image with the image sensor and output the image data, a comparison unit configured to compare first image data output from the imaging unit with second image data output from the imaging unit between image data in corresponding regions within a screen, and a selecting unit to output either the first image data or the second image data for each region according to a comparison result.


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