Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTaro Kobayashi
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of reducing the load of the process required to combine images with different exposures to generate a composite image. An image pickup unit performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions. A control unit controls the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed. A composing unit composes the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.
Claims5
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup unit configured to perform continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions;
- a control unit configured to control said image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed;
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- a composing unit configured to compose the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by said image pickup unit to generate one output image.
A control method for an image pickup apparatus that performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions, the control method comprising:
- a control step of controlling the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed;
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- a composing step of composing the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute a control method for an image pickup apparatus that performs continuous image pickup that shoots a subject continuously under different exposure conditions, the control method comprising:
- a control step of controlling the image pickup unit so that the exposure condition for the first shot in a current set, which is a second or later set, is coincident with the exposure condition for the last shot in the previous set when a plurality of sets of the continuous image pickup are performed;
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- a composing step of composing the images acquired by one set of the continuous image pickup by the image pickup unit to generate one output image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.