Patent ID: 7071987
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera having a sequence-photograph mode and other modes, said digital camera comprising: an image pick-up element for receiving light reflected from an object and outputting image data of the object; a light-receiving element for outputting data as to a light quantity received from the object, said light-receiving element being different from said image pick-up element; a first controller for controlling an exposure amount of said image pick-up element for a next frame in a sequence of photographs directly based on the light-quantity data for a previous frame output from said light-receiving element in the sequence-photograph mode; and a second controller for controlling the exposure amount of said image pick-up element based on the image data output from said image pick-up element in the other modes, wherein the light-receiving element outputs the light-quantity data during each frame in the sequence-photograph mode.