Patent ID: 11924558
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an image pickup apparatus, the image pickup apparatus including (a) an image pickup device that receives a light flux transmitted through a shooting optical system and performs photoelectric conversion, and (b) an optical image blur corrector that drives the shooting optical system and/or the image pickup device, wherein the control method comprises:
a step of acquiring a plurality of still images in a time continuous manner by the image pickup device;
a step of aligning the plurality of still images to generate a composite image; and
a step of setting an exposure time for each of the plurality of still images and a total number of the plurality of still images based on (a) information regarding a focal length of the shooting optical system, (b) information regarding an image blur correctable amount of the optical image blur corrector, and (c) information regarding a response characteristic of the optical image blur corrector in a predetermined band of vibration applied to the image pickup apparatus.