Method of controlling transmission light amount and television camera apparatus using the method
First Claim
1. A television camera apparatus for photoelectrically converting incident light originated from a photographing object to acquire a picture signal, comprising:
- an image pick-up unit containing a plurality of photoelectric converting elements;
a detection unit for detecting a range of a picture signal having a signal level higher than a predetermined level within said picture signals acquired from said image pick-up unit as a high luminance level range; and
a transmission light amount control unit for controlling incident light amounts of said imaging light from the photographing object with respect to the respective photoelectric converting elements every each of said photoelectric converting elements;
wherein;
said transmission amount control unit is comprised of;
a change-component detecting unit for detecting a change component between a first high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a first predetermined time instant, and a second high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a second predetermined time instant after said first predetermined time instant; and
a control unit of controlling the light amount of the incident light entered into said photoelectric converting elements based upon said first predetermined time instant, said second predetermined time instant, and said detected change-component.
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Abstract
In a television camera apparatus, while a high luminance level range is detected from a picture signal which is acquired by imaging a moving photographing object by using an image pick-up element or acquired by imaging a subject almost in a static state that enters into a visual field of the image pick-up element by remotely rotating or elevating the image pick-up element, such a range which becomes a high luminance level is predicted based upon a temporal change and the like of this detected range, and such a transmission light amount control is carried out in such a manner that a light amount of imaging light of the predicted range, which is received by a light receiving plane of the image pick-up element, is extincted.
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14 Claims
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1. A television camera apparatus for photoelectrically converting incident light originated from a photographing object to acquire a picture signal, comprising:
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an image pick-up unit containing a plurality of photoelectric converting elements;
a detection unit for detecting a range of a picture signal having a signal level higher than a predetermined level within said picture signals acquired from said image pick-up unit as a high luminance level range; and
a transmission light amount control unit for controlling incident light amounts of said imaging light from the photographing object with respect to the respective photoelectric converting elements every each of said photoelectric converting elements;
wherein;
said transmission amount control unit is comprised of;
a change-component detecting unit for detecting a change component between a first high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a first predetermined time instant, and a second high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a second predetermined time instant after said first predetermined time instant; and
a control unit of controlling the light amount of the incident light entered into said photoelectric converting elements based upon said first predetermined time instant, said second predetermined time instant, and said detected change-component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A television camera apparatus having a first image pick-up element and a second image pick-up element, for photoelectrically converting incident light entered from an object, comprising:
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first and second image pick-up units, each of which has a plurality of photoelectric converting elements;
a detection unit for detecting a range of said picture signal having a signal level higher than a predetermined level within said picture signal acquired by said first image pick-up unit as a high luminance level range; and
a transmission light amount control unit for controlling light amounts of said incident light with respect to the respective photoelectric converting elements of said second image pick-up unit every each of said photoelectric converting elements;
wherein;
said transmission light amount control unit comprises;
a change-component detecting unit for detecting a change component between a first high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a first predetermined time instant, and a second high luminance level range which is detected by said detection unit at a second predetermined time instant after said first predetermined time instant; and
a control unit of controlling the light amount of light entered into the light receiving plane of the photoelectric converting elements of said second image pick-up unit in response to said first predetermined time instant, said second predetermined time instant, and said detected change-component. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A transmission light amount control method used for a television camera apparatus having an image pick-up element and for acquiring a picture signal in such a manner that imaging light which is entered from an object is received by light receiving planes of a large number of photoelectric converting elements arrayed on said image pick-up element, and the imaging light received in the respective photoelectric converting elements is photoelectrically converted so as to produce said picture signal, comprising:
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a step (a) in which a picture signal range having a higher signal level than a predetermined level within a picture signal imaged at a first predetermined time instant is detected as a first high luminance level range, and a picture signal range having a higher signal level than said predetermined level is detected as a second high luminance level range within a picture signal imaged at a second predetermined time instant;
a step (b) in which a change-component between said first high luminance level range and said second high luminance level range is detected; and
a step (c) in which the amount of said imaging light is controlled in response to said first predetermined time instant, said second predetermined time instant, and said change-component. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. A computer readable storage medium recording thereon program codes capable of being executed by a computer wherein:
said program codes perform;
a step in which imaging light entered from an object is received by light receiving planes of a large number of photoelectric converting elements arrayed on an image pick-up element, and the imaging light received by the respective photoelectric converting elements is photoelectrically converted so as to acquire picture signals;
a step in which a picture signal range having a higher signal level than a predetermined level within a picture signal imaged at a first predetermined time instant is detected as a first high luminance level range among said acquired picture signals, and also a picture signal range having a higher signal level than said predetermined level is detected as a second high luminance level range within a picture signal imaged at a second predetermined time instant;
a step in which a change-component between said first high luminance level range and said second high luminance level range is acquired; and
a step in which said transmission light amount is controlled in response to said first predetermined time instant, said second predetermined time instant, and said detected change-component in such a manner that a light amount of the imaging light received by light receiving planes of photoelectric converting elements among said large number of photoelectric converting elements.
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