Patent ID: 6924837
Filing Date: 2005-08-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera comprising: an automatic exposure control mechanism that operates in an automatic exposure mode which comprises at least two sub-modes including a normal program mode and a high-shutter-speed priority program mode, wherein said high-shutter-speed priority program mode selects a higher shutter speed in comparison with said normal program mode under a same photographing condition; a camera attitude sensing processor that senses an attitude of said camera with respect to the vertical; a camera-shake detecting processor that detects a camera-shake in accordance with a stability of said attitude, sensed by said camera attitude sensing processor; a selecting control processor that selects said high-shutter-speed priority program mode as said sub-mode, when said attitude, sensed by said camera attitude sensing processor, is unstable and said camera-shake is detected by said camera-shake detecting processor while said automatic exposure mode is performed; wherein said camera attitude sensing processor comprises an inclinometer, and said selecting control processor repeatedly checks output from said inclinometer at a predetermined period and invalidates attitude information about said attitude detected while photographing if said output corresponding to said attitude is unstable while said automatic exposure mode is performed.