Patent ID: 11924554
Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An imaging system, comprising:
a camera mounted on a moveable apparatus, the camera configured to capture an image of a target object;
a first range detector, provided on a front side of the movable apparatus in a moving direction of the movable apparatus, configured to detect a distance between the movable apparatus and the target object;
a second range detector, provided on a rear side of the movable apparatus in the moving direction of the movable apparatus, configured to detect the distance between the movable apparatus and the target object; and
processing circuitry configured to determine any one of a fixed exposure condition and an automatic exposure (AE) condition, as an exposure condition, based on the distance between the movable apparatus and the target object detected by the first range detector and the distance between the movable apparatus and the target object detected by the second range detector.