Patent ID: 8780228
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capture apparatus comprising: an optical system having at least a lens; an image sensor of a line-sequential scanning type, which converts an object image formed by the optical system into an image signal, and sequentially outputs the image signal line by line; an optical database configured to store optical characteristics of the optical system in advance; a calculation unit configured to calculate a central time of an accumulation period for each area of said image sensor based on an accumulation start time and an accumulation end time of the each area of said image sensor, and to calculate optical parameters at the central time of the accumulation period; a referring unit configured to refer to optical characteristics corresponding to the optical parameters calculated by said calculation unit of the optical characteristics stored in said optical database; a correction value generation unit configured to generate correction values used to correct the image signal based on the optical characteristics referred to by said referring unit; and a correction unit configured to correct the image signal using the correction values generated by said correction value generation unit, wherein each area of said image sensor is configured by pixels of at least one line that configures said image sensor.