Patent ID: 7312824
Filing Date: 2007-12-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus having plural kinds of image sensors, sensitivities of which are different relative to each other, comprising: a scene-referred raw data generating section to generate scene-referred raw data sets, each of which is acquired from each of said plural kinds of image sensors through an image capturing operation; a scene-referred image data synthesizing section to synthesize scene-referred image data by combining at least two of said scene-referred raw data sets with each other into a standardized form; a synthesizing-information data generating section to generate synthesizing-information data for decomposing said scene-referred image data into said at least two of said scene-referred raw data sets; an output-referred image data generating section to generate output-referred image data by applying an optimization processing to said scene-referred image data, so that a visual image optimized for an output medium can be formed on said output medium, based on said output-referred image data; a differential data generating section to generate differential data between said scene-referred image data and said output-referred image data; and a controlling section to control a data-recording operation, so that said synthesizing-information data and said differential data are attached to said output-referred image data in order to store all of them into a storage medium.