Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKimitaka Arai
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit including a plurality of pixels adjacently disposed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and configured to perform photoelectric conversion on received light to accumulate electric charge, and a pixel exposure control unit configured to set an exposure amount of each of the plurality of pixels based on a result of capturing an image by the image capturing unit and to control an exposure time of each of the plurality of pixels.
Claims10
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- an image capturing unit including a plurality of pixels adjacently disposed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and configured to perform photoelectric conversion on received light to accumulate electric charge;
- and
- a pixel exposure control unit configured to set an exposure amount of each of the plurality of pixels based on a result of capturing an image by the image capturing unit and to control an exposure time of each of the plurality of pixels.
An image capturing method using an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit including a plurality of pixels adjacently disposed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction and configured to perform photoelectric conversion on received light to accumulate electric charge, the method comprising:
- controlling an exposure time of each of the plurality of pixels based on a result of capturing an image by the image capturing unit;
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- performing image capturing using the image capturing unit based on the exposure time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.