Exposure control apparatus and exposure control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenji Takahashi
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Abstract
An exposure control apparatus according to this invention includes an image sensing unit that senses an object image, and an exposure controller that performs the exposure control for photographing by selectively using a first exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined while exposure control is performed in accordance with the brightness of object images repetitively sensed by the image sensing unit, and a second exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined by performing exposure control by using a plurality of preset exposure values.
Claims18
An apparatus comprising:
- (A) an image sensing unit that senses an object image;
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- (B) an exposure controller that performs exposure control for photographing by selectively using a first exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined while exposure control is performed in accordance with the brightness of object images repetitively sensed by said image sensing unit, and a second exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined by performing exposure control by using a plurality of preset exposure values.
An exposure control method comprising:
- (A) the image sensing step of sensing an object image;
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- (B) the exposure control step of performing the exposure control for photographing by selectively using a first exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined while exposure control is performed in accordance with the brightness of object images repetitively sensed in the image sensing step, and a second exposure control mode in which an exposure value for photographing is determined by performing exposure control by using a plurality of preset exposure values.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.