Patent ID: 6961091
Filing Date: 2005-11-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera capable of flash photography by illuminating a photographic object, the digital camera comprising: an image sensor for sensing an image of the photographic object, the image sensor including a plurality of photoreceptor elements, the image sensor being adapted for reading an electrical load accumulation of each of at least one predetermined photoreceptor element among the plurality of photoreceptor elements; a detector for detecting an amount of the electrical load accumulation of each of the at least one predetermined photoreceptor element due to light exposure on the at least one predetermined photoreceptor element during a flash exposure for a duration of the flash exposure, and for outputting a corresponding detection signal; an interpolator for interpolating photographic data of photoreceptor elements, the photoreceptor elements of identical color and adjacent to each of the at least one predetermined photoreceptor element, the interpolator thus generating respective interpolated photographic data for each of the at least one predetermined photoreceptor element; and a controller for accomplishing light adjusting control of the flash exposure based on the thus outputted detection signal.