Patent ID: 8848098
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: an image analysis unit obtaining brightness information for respective hue regions from an image signal of a picked-up image; an exposure control unit carrying out exposure control based on the brightness information obtained in the image analysis unit, wherein the exposure control unit carries out the exposure control enhancing chroma based on the brightness information; and a main subject specification unit specifying a main subject in the picked-up image, wherein the image analysis unit obtains the brightness information from an image signal of the main subject, the exposure control unit carries out the exposure control enhancing chroma of the main subject based on the brightness information, and the exposure control unit calculates an amount of correction to have brightness for maximum chroma for each of the hue regions based on the brightness information for each of the hue regions and carries out the exposure control in accordance with the amount of correction thus calculated and a ratio of the image contained in each hue region.