Image sensing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8964068-B2
Application number	US-201414172768-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 4, 2014
Priority date	Sep 1, 2008
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

An apparatus having an electronic zoom function, comprising an image sensing element, a zoom magnification setting unit, a pixel signal readout unit, an image processor, and a controller which, when the zoom magnification is between first and second zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a first pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a second pixel count, and when the zoom magnification is between third and fourth zoom magnifications, controls to read out pixel signals of a third pixel count, and to generate the image using pixel signals of a fourth pixel count, the second pixel count is not larger than the first pixel count, the fourth pixel count is not larger than the third pixel count.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image sensing apparatus comprising:
an image sensing element having a plurality of pixels each of which performs a photo-electric conversion of an object image;
a readout unit configured to read out pixel signals from said image sensing element;
a generating unit configured to generate an image having a predetermined pixel count by using the pixel signal read out by said readout unit; and
a control unit configured to control said readout unit to rea…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Yanai Toshikazu

Classifications

• H04N23/69 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06T3/4023 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N5/23296 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic