Patent ID: 6874687

Claim:
An apparatus for adjusting color balance of an image sensing apparatus, comprising: a solid-state electronic image sensing device for sensing the image of a subject and outputting color image data of a plurality of colors representing the image of the subject; a color balance adjusting device, which is capable of performing amplification for each item of color image data, for carrying out a color balance adjustment by amplifying each item of color image data of the plurality of colors output from said solid-state electronic image sensing device; a determination device for determining whether a high-sensitivity image sensing mode has been set; and a color balance control device for controlling said color balance adjusting device, in accordance with a determination by said determination device that the high-sensitivity image sensing mode has been set, in such a manner that an amplification factor will change in comparison with an amplification factor that prevails when a determination made by said determination device is that the high-sensitivity image sensing mode has not been set.