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Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

May. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Naoyuki Nakagawara, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/2357 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/353 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging apparatus including an electric charge accumulation unit configured to accumulate electric charge in accordance with an incident light quantity; a tracking unit configured to perform tracking; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control, wherein the electric charge accumulation unit performs a first accumulation, and then performs a second accumulation after the first accumulation, wherein the tracking unit performs the tracking based on an image signal obtained through the first accumulation, and wherein the exposure control unit computes a control value for the exposure control based on at least the image signal obtained through the second accumulation of the image signal obtained through the first accumulation and an image signal obtained through the second accumulation.


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