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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2012
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing unitincluding a first image-capturing element, a second image-capturing element, a third image-capturing element, and a fourth image-capturing element, and includes an image processing unit, wherein a sensitivity of the fourth image-capturing elementis less than sensitivities of the first image-capturing elementto the third image-capturing element, and the image processing unitgenerates high sensitivity image data on the basis of outputs from the first image-capturing elementto the third image-capturing element, and generates low sensitivity image data on the basis of an output from the fourth image-capturing element, and further, the image processing unitgenerates a combined image using high sensitivity image data corresponding to a low illumination image area in the low illumination image area obtained from the low sensitivity image data or the high sensitivity image data, and using low sensitivity image data corresponding to an high illumination image area.