Patent ID: 9516324
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image-capturing unit configured to acquire RAW image data indicating a pre-development image from an image signal that was captured by an image sensor; recording unit configured to encode the RAW image data by a predetermined encoding method and record the encoded RAW image data in a recording medium; a developing unit configured to read out the encoded RAW image data from the recording medium and develop the read encoded RAW image data; and a control unit configured to compare an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was recorded in a shooting time period by the image-capturing unit with an amount of the encoded RAW image data that was read out from the recording medium so as to be used in development by the developing unit, and to control an encoding method by which the RAW image data is encoded according to a comparison result.