Patent ID: 7440021
Filing Date: 2008-10-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit for capturing an image of an object; a light quantity storing unit for storing light quantity of the object which is outside of an image capturing region of said image capturing apparatus by corresponding the light quantity to a positional relationship between said image capturing unit and the object; an image capturing region variation detecting unit for detecting variation in the image capturing region of said image capturing unit; a positional relationship estimating unit for estimating a positional relationship between said image capturing unit and the object after the positional relationship between said image capturing unit and the object is varied on the basis of the variation in the image capturing region detected by said image capturing region variation detecting unit; and an image capturing condition control unit for controlling an image capturing condition by said image capturing unit on the basis of the light quantity stored by said light quantity storing unit, wherein the light quantity is corresponded to the positional relationship estimated by said positional relationship estimating unit.