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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Kawakami, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image-capturing unit acquiring RAW image data indicating a pre-development image from an image signal; recording unit encoding the RAW image data by a predetermined encoding method and recording the encoded RAW image data in a medium; a developing unit reading out the encoded RAW image data and developing the read encoded RAW image data; and a control unit comparing an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was recorded in a shooting time period with an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was read out from the medium so as to be used in development, and controlling an encoding method by which the RAW image data is encoded according to a comparison result.