Patent ID: 11910105
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
an image pickup unit having an image pickup element;
control circuitry configured to blend, based on a value of a single blend ratio input by a user, three tone curve characteristics arbitrarily selected from among a plurality of tone curve characteristics prepared in advance;
signal processing circuitry configured to perform processing of applying the tone curve characteristics blended by the control circuitry to an input video signal having a linear characteristic, the input video signal being generated by the image pickup unit; and
a user interface that receives, from the user, selection of the three tone curve characteristics from among four or more tone curve characteristics prepared in advance, and receives, from the user, a parameter for calculating the value of the single blend ratio.