Patent ID: 8081238
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: shutter-operation accepting means for accepting a shutter operation; image capturing means for capturing an image of an object and generating a captured image; brightness-information extracting means for extracting, from the captured image, brightness information indicating brightness of the whole captured image; luminance-value-distribution-information extracting means for extracting, from the captured image, luminance-value-distribution information indicating a distribution of luminance values in the captured image; scene determining means for determining a scene of the object included in the captured image on the basis of the extracted brightness information and the extracted luminance-value-distribution information; control means for performing control to record captured images using at least two different image capturing/recording parameters in a case where, when the shutter operation has been accepted, the scene of the object included in the captured image is determined to be a predetermined scene; brightness-information evaluation-value-parameter storage means for storing, on a scene-by-scene basis, a brightness-information evaluation value parameter indicating a distribution of the brightness information according to various scenes; luminance-value-distribution-information evaluation-value-parameter storage means for storing, on a scene-by-scene basis, a luminance-value-distribution-information evaluation value parameter indicating a feature amount corresponding to the luminance-value-distribution information according to the various scenes; and determination-evaluation-value calculating means for calculating, on a scene-by-scene basis, a brightness-information evaluation value using the brightness-information evaluation value parameter corresponding to the extracted brightness information, calculating, on a scene-by-scene basis, a luminance-value-distribution-information evaluation value using the luminance-value-distribution-information evaluation value parameter corresponding to the extracted luminance-value-distribution information, and calculating, on a scene-by-scene basis, a determination evaluation value on the basis of the brightness-information evaluation value and the luminance-value-distribution-information evaluation value calculated on a scene-by-scene basis, wherein the scene determining means determines the scene of the object included in the captured image on the basis of the determination evaluation value calculated on a scene-by-scene basis.