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Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

  • US 9,661,291 B2
  • Filed: 01/20/2016
  • Issued: 05/23/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:

  • an image sensor that includes a color filter array and is configured to output at a first frame rate a first number of first frames of image data that have not yet been subjected to white balance processing; and

    circuitry configured to;

    (a) in a recording process,compress the first frames of image data, without previously performing white balance processing thereon, to generate compressed image data;

    store the compressed image data on a storage medium; and

    generate a first signal representing a first white-balanced image sequence that is to be displayed on a display as a camera-through image by processing the first frames of image data to generate a second number of white-balanced second frames of image data that is lower than the first number of first frames of image data, and by processing the white-balanced second frames of image data at a second frame rate which is lower than the first frame rate; and

    (b) in a reproduction process,read the compressed image data from the storage medium;

    decompress the compressed image data to produce decompressed frames of image data; and

    generate a second signal representing a second white-balanced image sequence to be displayed on the display as a slow motion reproduced image by processing the decompressed frames of image data.

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