Patent ID: 8432458

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit; a camera signal processing unit which generates a video signal by processing a camera signal output from the imaging unit; an exposure control unit which realizes a plurality of the imaging operations of the same object with different sensitivities by controlling the exposure of the imaging unit; a video synthesis unit which outputs by synthesizing a plurality of video signals having different sensitivities imaged by the imaging unit under an exposure control performed by the exposure control unit and generated by the camera signal processing unit; and an object recognition unit which detects the object information by the image processing of the video signals generated by the camera signal processing unit; wherein the object recognition unit detects the object information for each of the plurality of the video signals having different sensitivities generated by the camera signal processing unit, and the exposure control unit uses the object information for exposure control; wherein the exposure control unit controls and changes an exposure amount based on the detected object information; wherein the video synthesis unit outputs by synthesizing a plurality of video signals having different sensitivities generated by the camera signal processing unit, under an exposure control performed by the exposure control unit changed based on the object information; wherein the object recognition unit detects a plurality of types of object information at the time of detecting the object information for each of a plurality of video signals having different sensitivities generated by the camera signal processing unit, and wherein at least two of a control of the exposure control amount based on the object information performed by the exposure control unit, a control of the gamma characteristic of the video signals based on the object information performed by the camera signal processing unit, and a control of a ratio at which the plurality of the video signals having different sensitivities are synthesized performed by the video synthesis unit are performed by using the result of recognition of respectively different types of object information.