Patent ID: 7136100
Filing Date: 2006-11-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic still camera comprising: image sensing means for accumulating a charge corresponding to incoming light, converting the accumulated charge into image data, and outputting the image data; optical path opening/closing means for opening/closing an incoming optical path to said image sensing means; acquisition means for acquiring a first exposure time; discrimination means for determining if the first exposure time is not less than a predetermined second exposure time; image sensing instruction means for instructing image sensing; first image sensing control means for, when image sensing is instructed by said image sensing instruction means, capturing first image data by exposing said image sensing means for the first exposure time with said optical path opening/closing means opened; second image sensing control means for, when image sensing is instructed by said image sensing instruction means and when the discrimination means determines that the first exposure time is not less than the second exposure time, capturing second image data by exposing said image sensing means for the second exposure time not more than the first exposure time with said optical path opening/closing means closed; first correction means for correcting the second image data captured by said second image sensing control means; and second correction means for correcting the first image data captured by said first image sensing control means using the second image data corrected by said first correction means.