Patent ID: 8885092

Claim:
A camera device, comprising: an imager that outputs a long exposure signal and a short exposure signal, the long exposure signal being an image signal with a long exposure time and the short exposure signal being an image signal with a short exposure time in a predetermined unit field period; a face detector that detects a face area from an image captured by the imager; a weighting processor that applies, when the face detector detects the face area, a weighting process to a luminance level of the long exposure signal in the detected face area using a weighting constant to reduce the luminance level of the long exposure signal in the detected face area; and an exposure controller that performs exposure control using the long exposure signal and the short exposure signal when the reduced luminance level of the long exposure signal in the detected face area is equal to or higher than a predetermined saturation level, and is prevented from performing the exposure control using the long exposure signal and the short exposure signal when the reduced luminance level of the long exposure signal in the detected face area is lower than the saturation level.