Patent ID: 7777785
Filing Date: 2010-08-17
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup device comprising: an image pickup unit that converts an image including an object into an electrical signal to acquire a picked-up image; a mode selection unit that selects a particular image pickup mode in which an image pickup is performed a plurality of times in one circumstance by the image pickup unit; a temporary memory unit that temporarily stores a plurality of picked-up images shot in the particular image pickup mode when a plurality of images are picked up by an arbitrary image pickup instruction operation in a condition in which the particular image pickup mode is selected by the mode selection unit; a correction unit that performs a first process of, after finishing the shooting of the plurality of images in the particular image pickup mode, for any one of the picked-up images designated from the plurality of picked-up images temporarily stored in the temporary memory unit, performing image extraction of the designated one of the picked-up images to execute an image correction process on the image content of the designated one of the picked-up images and a second process of retaining correction data of the picked-up image corrected in the first process, and correcting, in the same image correction process performed on the designated one of the picked-up images, another picked-up image of an area specified by the particular image pickup mode temporarily stored in the temporary memory unit, based on the retained correction data; and an image storage unit that stores each of the picked-up images corrected in the first process and the second process as picked-up images corrected at the time of shooting.