Patent ID: 8810683
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: a plurality of image capturing units; a supply unit configured to supply electricity to each image capturing unit; a determination unit configured to determine a capturing mode and an operation state of the image capturing apparatus; a decision unit configured to decide an image capturing unit to be activated out of the plurality of image capturing units based on the capturing mode, the operation state, and a capturing distance of an object included in a captured scene; an estimation unit configured to estimate the capturing distance of the object from image data captured by an activated image capturing unit; and a control unit configured to, in a case where the operation state transitions from a capturing preparation state to a still image capturing state, control the supply unit to activate the image capturing unit decided to be activated, wherein the decision unit decides one of the plurality of image capturing units as the image capturing unit to be activated in a case where the operation state is a framing state, and decides the image capturing unit to be activated for capturing the captured scene based on a minimum capturing distance estimated by the estimation unit, and wherein, in long-term exposure capturing, the activated image capturing unit is not adjacent to other activated image capturing units.