Setting control of bracketing image sensing operation in image sensing apparatus

• US 20060215043A1
• Filed: 05/31/2006
• Published: 09/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nobuyuki Furukawa
• Original Assignee: Nobuyuki Furukawa
• Inventors: Furukawa, Nobuyuki
• Granted Patent: US 7,518,638 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.100
• 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

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8. An image sensing apparatus comprising:

a selection unit adapted to select one of a plurality of image sensing conditions;

a setting unit adapted to set parameters obtained by changing a reference value corresponding to the image sensing condition selected by said selection unit by a predetermined amount in stages;

a bracketing image sensing unit adapted to automatically obtain a plurality of different images by an image sensing function corresponding to the selected image sensing condition using the parameters set by said setting unit; and

a control unit adapted to, when one of the image sensing conditions is selected by said selection unit, prohibit an image sensing function corresponding to the rest of the image sensing conditions.

9. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of image sensing conditions include color temperature correction for correcting color temperature of a sensed image.

10. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of image sensing conditions include exposure control.

11. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising a display unit adapted to display settings of the image sensing function to be set by said setting unit when one of the plurality of image sensing conditions is selected.

12. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 11, wherein said display unit blinks an icon corresponding to the image sensing function corresponding to the selected image sensing condition.

13. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 8 further comprising a display unit adapted to display the image sensing function prohibited by said control unit.

14. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said display unit blinks an icon corresponding to the image sensing function prohibited by said control unit.

15. The image sensing apparatus according to claim 13, wherein said display unit blinks a setting value of the image sensing function prohibited by said control unit or displays a value which cannot be set.

16. A control method of an image sensing apparatus comprising:

a selection step of selecting one of a plurality of image sensing conditions;

a setting step of setting parameters obtained by changing a reference value corresponding to the image sensing condition selected in said selection step by a predetermined amount in stages;

a bracketing image sensing step of automatically obtaining a plurality of different images by an image sensing function corresponding to the selected image sensing condition using the parameters set in said setting step; and

a control step of, when one of the image sensing conditions is selected by said selection unit, prohibiting an image sensing function corresponding to the rest of the image sensing conditions.