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Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Masanori Echigo, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to capture a plurality of images with different exposure amounts; an image compositing unit configured to composite the plurality of images and generate a composited image; and a display control unit configured to display the composited image generated by the image compositing unit on a display unit; wherein the display control unit performs control so that, in accordance with an instruction for magnifying a portion of the composited image displayed on the display unit, a magnified image of an image from among the plurality of images captured by the image capturing unit is displayed on the display unit instead of the composited image.


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