Patent ID: 9319594
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging device, comprising: an imaging section, including an image sensor for forming a subject image and outputting image data, a saturation determination section for, in the case where imaging has been carried out under conditions that have been set for actual exposure, determining whether or not pixel output of at least some of the image data is saturated, a divided exposure time detection section for, in the event that it has been determined by the saturation determination section that at least some pixel outputs are saturated, detecting a divided exposure time at which the pixel outputs are not saturated, and an image processing section for applying image processing to image data that has been acquired by the imaging section, wherein the image processing section is provided with an additive combination section for carrying out additive combination of image data, and a gain application section for applying minus gain to image data that has been subjected to additive combination by the additive combination section, and the additive combination section, at the time of imaging in the imaging section, respectively additively combines a plurality of image data, that have been acquired by divided exposure at the divided exposure time, to create combined image data, and the gain application section applies minus gain to the combined image data to create taken image data.