Digital image photographing apparatus and method of controlling the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorDong-min Kim
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Abstract
A digital image photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the digital image photographing apparatus, the method involving dividing an imaging surface of an imaging device into a plurality of areas, and applying a first skip mode to an area that is expected to include a target object and applying a different second skip mode to an area that is not expected to include the target object, so that images having different resolutions may be obtained from the plurality of areas.
Claims27
A method of controlling a digital image photographing apparatus, the method comprising:
- dividing a data read area of an imaging surface of an imaging device into a plurality of data read areas;
- setting a plurality of skip modes for respective ones of the plurality of data read areas, wherein at least a first of the skip modes differs from a second of the skip modes;
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- according to the skip modes, reading image data of an input image from each of the plurality of data read areas.
A digital image photographing apparatus comprising:
- an area dividing unit for dividing a data read area of an imaging surface of an imaging device into a plurality of data read areas;
- a skip mode setting unit for setting skip modes for the plurality of data read areas, wherein at least a first skip mode of a first data read area differs from a second skip mode of a second data read area;
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- an imaging control unit for controlling the imaging device to read image data of an input image from each of the plurality of data read areas according to the skip modes.
A digital image photographing apparatus comprising:
- a flash;
- a flash driving unit for performing preliminary flashing and main flashing of the flash;
- a preliminary flashing image generating unit for generating a preliminary flashing image that is obtained during the preliminary flashing and that is generated by independently reading image data from each of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing an imaging surface of an imaging unit, wherein a first rate of reading data from a first of the areas differs from a second rate of reading data from a second of the areas;
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- an emission intensity deriving unit for deriving flashing intensity in the main flashing from the preliminary flashing image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.