Patent ID: 8358370

Claim:
A flash light compensation system for a digital camera system, comprising: a camera including an image sensor for picking-up an image of a scene to be photographed, a flash device for emitting light to said scene, and a plurality of sensors for measuring the respective intensity field and generating corresponding output signals, a depth-field estimator for estimating, based on the output signals of said plurality of sensors, a depth field of the scene, a compensator unit for providing a luminance adjustment on the scene picked-up by the image sensor and illuminated by the flash device, based on the depth field estimation by the depth-field estimator, wherein the compensator unit is further configured to receive a flash input indicative of a flash intensity or a flash focus, a display screen to display a preview of the image of the scene to be photographed, and a user interface to receive a user input and to communicate the user input to the compensator unit to adjust an amount of compensation of the luminance adjustment after the preview is displayed.