Image pick-up equipment with bracket photographing function

Image pick-up equipment comprising:

• an image pick-up unit for performing a photographing operation in response to a release operation by a user;
• a photographing control unit for making the image pick-up unit execute a bracket photographing operation to perform photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by the user;
• a light-emitting unit having plural light-emitting members disposed respectively at different positions, the light-emitting member including a light-emitting diode;
• a light-emitting control unit for generating an electric signal for controlling light-emitting operation of the light-emitting unit for each photographing operation in the bracket photographing operation of the image pick-up unit;
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• a light-emitting member driving unit for driving the plural light-emitting diodes of the light-emitting unit separately so as to emit light or cease emitting light.

A method of controlling image pick-up equipment which has a light-emitting unit including plural light-emitting members, each light-emitting member provided with a charge storage unit, the method comprising the steps of:

• executing a bracket photographing operation to perform photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation;
• determining a light-emitting condition including at least one of a light-emitting position and light-emitting angle;
• generating an electric signal for controlling a light-emitting operation for each photographing operation based on the determined light-emitting condition;
• making the light-emitting unit emit light based on the generated electric signal;
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• charging the charge storage unit of the light-emitting member while other light-emitting member is emitting light.

A method of controlling image pick-up equipment which is provided with a light-emitting unit including plural light-emitting diodes, the method comprising the steps of:

• executing a bracket photographing operation to perform photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation;
• determining a light-emitting condition including at least one of a light-emitting position and light-emitting angle;
• generating an electric signal for controlling a light-emitting operation for each photographing operation based on the determined light-emitting condition;
• and
• making the light-emitting unit emit light based on the generated electric signal.

A storage medium storing a control program, the control program for controlling a light-emitting unit which has plural light-emitting members each provided with a charge storage unit, the control program comprising:

• a code for executing a bracket photographing operation to perform photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by a user;
• a code for determining a light-emitting condition including at least one of a light-emitting position and light-emitting angle;
• a code for generating an electric signal for controlling a light-emitting operation for each photographing operation based on the determined light-emitting condition;
• a code for making the light-emitting unit emit light based on the generated electric signal;
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• a code for charging the charge storage unit of the light-emitting member while other light-emitting member is emitting light.

A storage medium storing a control program, the control program for controlling a light-emitting unit having plural light-emitting diodes, the control program comprising:

• a code for executing a bracket photographing operation to perform photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by a user;
• a code for determining a light-emitting condition including at least one of a light-emitting position and light-emitting angle;
• a code for generating an electric signal for controlling a light-emitting operation for each photographing operation based on the determined light-emitting condition;
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• a code for making the light-emitting unit emit light based on the generated electric signal.

Image pick-up equipment having a flash light-emitting device for a bracket photograph operation for performing photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by a user, the equipment comprising:

• light-emitting control means for generating an electric signal for controlling light-emitting operation of the flash light-emitting device for each photographing operation in the bracket photographing operation;
• light-emitting means having plural light-emitting members disposed at different positions or having different light-emitting angles, respectively;
• electric charge storage means provided for each of the light-emitting members of the light-emitting means;
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• light-emitting member driving means for making the light-emitting member of the light-emitting means emit light or cease emitting light separately from other based on the generated electric signal, and for charging the electric charge storage means of the light-emitting member while other light-emitting member is emitting light.

Image pick-up equipment having a flash-light emitting device for a bracket photographing operation for performing photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by a user, the equipment comprising:

• a memory for storing photographed image data;
• light-emitting control means for generating an electric signal for controlling light-emitting operation of the flash light-emitting device for each photographing operation in the bracket photographing operation;
• light-emitting means having plural light-emitting members disposed at different positions or having different light-emitting angles, respectively;
• light-emitting member driving means for making the plural light-emitting members of the light-emitting means emit light or cease emitting light separately from other based on the electric signal generated by the light-emitting control means;
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• image pick-up means for photographing an object plural times in response to a single release operation under illumination of the light-emitting members disposed at different positions to obtain plural image data, and for storing the obtained image data in the memory.

Image pick-up equipment having a flash light-emitting device for a bracket photographing operation for performing photographing operations plural times in success in response to a single release operation by a user, the equipment comprising:

• light-emitting control means for generating an electric signal for controlling light-emitting operation of the flash light-emitting device for each photographing operation in the bracket photographing operation;
• light-emitting means having plural light-emitting diodes disposed at different positions or having different light-emitting angles respectively;
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• light-emitting member driving means for making the light-emitting diode of the light-emitting means emit light or cease emitting light separately from other based on the electric signal generated by the light-emitting control means.