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US 10,567,638 B2Granted
Electronic device and computer program product for setting image capturing conditions for multiple regions in image capturing sensor
AssigneeNikon Corporation
InventorsSatoshi Tsuchiya, Yuuki Asano, Shuhei Yoshikawa, Aiko Namikawa
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Abstract
An electronic device includes: an image-capturing unit that captures an image of a subject with an image sensor, the image sensor being configured to be able to set image-capturing conditions for a plurality of regions on an image-capturing surface; and a control unit that determines the image-capturing conditions varied for each of the regions, based on a subject element detected from the image captured by the image-capturing unit.
Claims10
An electronic device, comprising:
- an image sensor that includes a plurality of image-capturing regions in which a subject is captured;
- a display that displays a plurality of images of the subject captured in a first image-capturing region of the plurality of image-capturing regions;
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- a processor configured to:
- set first image-capturing conditions for the first image-capturing region of the image sensor based on an image selected from the plurality of images displayed on the display, the first image-capturing conditions being different from second image-capturing conditions for a second image-capturing region of the plurality of image-capturing regions of the image sensor, the second image-capturing region being arranged in a row direction side from the first image-capturing region;
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- control the image sensor to capture the subject in at least the first image-capturing region and the second image-capturing region of the plurality of image-capturing regions of the image sensor, the first image-capturing region capturing the subject with the first image-capturing conditions, and the second image-capturing region capturing the subject with the second image-capturing conditions, wherein:
- the image sensor includes a first control line for outputting a control signal for causing the first image-capturing region to capture the subject with the first image-capturing conditions, and a second control line for outputting a control signal for causing the second image-capturing region to capture the subject with the second image-capturing conditions, that is different from the first control line.
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