Setting control of bracketing image sensing operation in image sensing apparatus

• US 20030081140A1
• Filed: 10/30/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Furukawa, Nobuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,110,032 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/362
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/70 Circuitry for compensating brightness variation in the scene
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/743 Bracketing, i.e. taking a series of images with varying exposure conditions

Abstract

An image sensing apparatus capable of performing bracketing image sensing operations for a plurality of different types of parameters is provided. The image sensing apparatus comprises a selection unit adapted to select a parameter for performing a bracketing image sensing operation, and a controller adapted to prohibit a bracketing image sensing operation for other types of parameters in a case where the parameter for performing the bracketing image sensing operation is selected by the selection unit.

Claims

1. An image sensing apparatus capable of performing bracketing image sensing operations for a plurality of different types of parameters, comprising:

a selection unit adapted to select a parameter for performing a bracketing image sensing operation; and

a controller adapted to prohibit a bracketing image sensing operation for other types of parameters in a case where the parameter for performing the bracketing image sensing operation is selected by said selection unit.

2. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display circuit adapted to display a type of bracketing image sensing operation prohibited by said controller.

3. An image sensing apparatus having bracketing image sensing functions, comprising:

a first function adapted to perform a first bracketing image sensing operation by changing a parameter for correcting a color temperature of an image-sensing screen;

a second function adapted to perform a second bracketing image sensing operation by changing a parameter for correcting an exposure; and

a selection unit adapted to select and set one of said first function and said second function.

4. A control method of an image sensing apparatus capable of performing bracketing image sensing operations for a plurality of different types of parameters, comprising:

determining whether or not a parameter for a bracketing image sensing operation is selected; and

in a case where the parameter is selected, prohibiting selection of a parameter for other bracketing image sensing operation.

6. A storage medium which is readable by an information processing apparatus and stores a program which is executable by the information processing apparatus and has a program code for realizing the information processing method defined in claim 4.

5. A control method of an image sensing apparatus having bracketing image sensing functions, comprising:

determining whether a first function or a second function is set, said first function provided for performing a first bracketing image sensing operation by changing a parameter for correcting a color temperature of an image-sensing screen, and said second function provided for performing a second bracketing image sensing operation by changing a parameter for correcting an exposure; and

in a case where one of the functions is set, prohibiting an operation of the other function.

7. A storage medium which is readable by an information processing apparatus and stores a program which is executable by the information processing apparatus and has a program code for realizing the information processing method defined in claim 5.

8. An operation control system of an image sensing apparatus having a first image sensing function for performing bracketing image sensing operation by changing a first parameter which is a color temperature correction value for correcting a color temperature of a sensed image, a second image sensing function for performing bracketing image sensing operation by changing a second parameter which is an exposure control parameter, and a controller for prohibiting one of the first and second image sensing functions in a case where the other image sensing function is selected, comprising:

a first display unit adapted to display a setting of set image sensing function when one of the first and second image sensing functions is set;

a second display unit adapted to display a setting state by flashing an icon corresponding to the set image sensing function; and

a third display unit adapted to display the image sensing function prohibited by said controller,

wherein said third display unit flashes an icon corresponding to the prohibited image sensing function, and flashes a setting value of the prohibited image sensing function or displays a value that cannot be set.