Patent ID: 6441849
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
An image pickup system comprising:a photographing lens for focusing and forming incident light from a photographed body as an image on an image pickup face; an image pickup element for photoelectrically converting the incident light focused and formed as an image by said photographing lens and converting the incident light to an image signal; first control means for obtaining a first image signal by reading the image signal from each of pixels of a first area in all image pickup areas of said image pickup element; second control means for obtaining a second image signal by reading the image signal from each of pixels of a second area smaller than said first area in all the image pickup areas of said image pickup element; display means for displaying the first image signal obtained by said first control means; and gain adjusting means for adjusting a gain of the image signal read from said second area in accordance with a ratio of the total number of pixels as reading objects in the first area in all the image pickup areas of said image pickup element and the total number of pixels as reading objects in said second area.