Image pickup apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeRenesas Electronics Corporation
InventorToshiharu Ooi
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Abstract
An exemplary aspect of the invention is an image pickup apparatus including a sensor unit including a plurality of pixels; an exposure control unit that controls exposure by a feedback control based on image data acquired by the sensor unit; and a display unit that displays an image having undergone exposure control. During a time period from a point immediately after activation of the image pickup apparatus until a point when an image is displayed on the display unit, the sensor unit executes temporary loading of a part of the image data, and the exposure control unit sets an optimum exposure value based on the image data temporarily loaded.
Claims10
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- a sensor unit including a plurality of pixels;
- an exposure control unit that controls exposure by a feedback control based on image data acquired by the sensor unit;
- and
- a display unit that displays an image having undergone exposure control,
- wherein, during a time period from a point immediately after activation of the image pickup apparatus until a point when an image is displayed on the display unit, the sensor unit executes temporary loading of a part of the image data, and the exposure control unit sets an optimum exposure value based on the image data temporarily loaded.
A method of controlling an image pickup apparatus that controls exposure by a feedback control based on image data acquired by a sensor unit including a plurality of pixels, the method comprising:
- during a time period from a point immediately after activation of the image pickup apparatus until a point when an image is displayed on a display unit,
- executing temporary loading of a part of the image data;
- and
- setting an optimum exposure value based on the image data temporarily loaded.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.