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US 2002/0054220 A1Published application
Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshitaka Takeuchi
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Abstract
An object is to provide an image pickup apparatus which can improve convenience of white sheet data used for correcting the color of a picked-up image. Each image pickup data is converted into a file by an image filing unit and recorded by a medium-recording unit. Average value data of each color component data for part of the picked-up data is stored in an area different from the image pickup data recording area in each file.
Claims7
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a memory for storing as white data first image data obtained from an image pickup element;
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- a control unit for converting second image data from the image pickup element into a file and storing the first image data stored said memory into an area different from that of the second image data in the image data file.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a memory adapted to store reference data based on image data picked up with first and second light sources, and specific data based on image data picked up by an image pickup device of said image pickup apparatus with said first and second light source;
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- a control device adapted to read out from a detachable recording medium an image file and white balance data stored in the image file and correct the read-out white balance data according to the reference data and the specific data, stored in said memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.