Patent ID: 11956538
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An image capturing apparatus that includes an image sensor, and a photometry unit that performs photometry of a photographing environment, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory having instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform operations as:
a motion vector calculation section configured to calculate motion vectors based on images acquired by the image sensor;
a photographing condition determination section configured to determine photographing conditions for consecutively photographing a plurality of images using the image sensor; and
an image combining section configured to perform image alignment and combination on the plurality of consecutively photographed images,
wherein the photographing condition determination section changes a gain for developing the consecutively photographed images between a case where the images are used for calculating motion vectors by the motion vector calculation section and a case where the images are used for the image alignment and combination by the image combining section, according to a photometry result obtained by the photometry unit.