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US 4,901,152 AGranted
Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTeruo Hieda, Toshiyuki Masui, Koji Takahashi, Katsuji Yoshimura
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus which alternately performs 1/n-sec light storage and 1/m-sec light storage (m>n), and outputs an image pickup signal obtained by mixing a 1/n-sec stored image and a 1/m-sec stored image. The apparatus has a circuit for separately controlling white balance of the 1/n-sec stored image portion and the 1/m-sec stored image portion.
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An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- (a) an image pickup section for alternately performing light storage for a first period and light storage for a second period shorter than the first period, and for outputting an image pickup signal obtained by mixing an image stored in the first period and an image stored in the second period;
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- (b) white balance control means for separately performing white-balance control of the stored image portion of the first period and the stored image portion of the second period obtained from the image pickup signal.
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- (a) image pickup means for alternately outputting a first image pickup signal for a first storage period, and a second image pickup signal for a second storage period;
- (b) detecting means for detecting levels of the first and second image pickup signals;
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- (c) mixing means for selecting color signals from the first and second image pickup signals in accordance with an output from said detecting means, and then outputting the obtained signal.
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