Setting control of bracketing image sensing operation in image sensing apparatus

• US 7,110,032 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2002
• Issued: 09/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Furukawa, Nobuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Ngoc-Yen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Giles, Nicholas G
• Application Number:
  US10/283,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20030081140A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,420 Days
• Field of Search: 348/333.01, 348/333.02, 348/333.04, 396/373, 396/374
• US Class Current: 348/333.02
• 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 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.