Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkira Kubota
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus comprises a capturing unit which captures an image; a detection unit which detects an object from the captured image; a generating unit which generates a luminance distribution of the captured image; a calculating unit which calculates, based on the luminance distribution, an exposure amount used when performing autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures; a determining unit which determines whether or not to perform the autoexposure bracketing using the calculated exposure amount; and a correcting unit which corrects the calculated exposure amount based on feature information of the object detected by the detection unit.
Claims10
An image capturing apparatus comprising:
- a capturing unit configured to capture an image;
- a detection unit configured to detect an object from the captured image;
- a generating unit configured to generate a luminance distribution of the captured image;
- a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the luminance distribution, an exposure amount used when performing autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures;
- a determining unit configured to determine whether or not to perform the autoexposure bracketing using the calculated exposure amount;
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- a correcting unit configured to correct the calculated exposure amount based on feature information of the object detected by the detection unit.
A control method of an image capturing apparatus having a capturing unit that captures an image and a detection unit that detects an object from the captured image, the method comprising:
- a generating step of generating a luminance distribution of the captured image;
- a calculating step of calculating, based on the luminance distribution, an exposure amount used when performing autoexposure bracketing that captures a plurality of images at different exposures;
- a determining step of determining whether or not to perform the autoexposure bracketing using the calculated exposure amount;
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- a correcting step of correcting the calculated exposure amount based on feature information of the object detected by the detection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.