Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8947556-B2
Application number	US-201213605192-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 6, 2012
Priority date	Sep 22, 2011
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

An image pickup apparatus that is capable of reducing the load of the process required to combine images with different exposures to generate a composite image. An image pickup unit performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions. A control unit controls the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed. A composing unit composes the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image pickup apparatus comprising:
an image pickup unit configured to perform continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions;
a control unit configured to control said image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous…

Assignees

• Kobayashi Taro
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Kobayashi Taro

Classifications

• H04N23/743 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2356 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic