Imaging apparatus and method of controlling the imaging apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorShiori Katsumata
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section that captures an image of a subject; a detection section that detects flicker of a through-the-lens image as a moving image of the subject which is obtained by image capturing of the imaging section; and a control section that, when the detection section detects the flicker, controls an aperture, a shutter speed, and a gain on the basis of through-the-lens image control values as control values for controlling the aperture, the shutter speed, and the gain so as to preferentially suppress occurrence of flicker in the through-the-lens image.
Claims8
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to
- capture an image of a subject,
- determine whether or not to enable a user to check an effect of an aperture of a captured image for storage in a through-the-lens image,
- based on a determination of whether the subject is under a flicker condition, control exposure of the through-the-lens image between exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image and exposure for the captured image for storage, which is different than the exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image, when a determination is made to enable the user to check the effect of the aperture of the captured image for storage in the through-the-lens image, and
- control exposure of the through-the-lens image to the exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image when a determination is made to not enable the user to check the effect of the aperture of the captured image for storage in the through-the-lens image.
A method for controlling exposure of an imaging apparatus, comprising acts of:
- determining whether or not to enable a user to check an effect of an aperture of a captured image for storage in a through-the-lens image;
- based on a determination of whether the subject is under a flicker condition, controlling exposure of the through-the-lens image between exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image and exposure for the captured image for storage, which is different than the exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image, when a determination is made to enable the user to check the effect of the aperture of the captured image for storage in the through-the-lens image;
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- controlling exposure of the through-the-lens image to the exposure appropriate for the through-the-lens image when a determination is made to not enable the user to check the effect of the aperture of the captured image for storage in the through-the-lens image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.