Patent ID: 8779341

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: a charge accumulation unit configured to accumulate charges based on an amount of incident light; a control unit configured to set a first control value for causing the charge accumulation unit to execute a first accumulation and obtaining first image data and a second control value for causing the charge accumulation unit to execute a second accumulation and obtaining second image data; a calculation unit configured to calculate an exposure control value based on at least one of the first and second image data; and a setting unit configured to set an operation mode, wherein the control unit sets the first and second control values, depending on whether the operation mode set by the setting unit executes image recognition processing based on image data obtained through accumulation by the charge accumulation unit, and wherein, if the operation mode set by the setting unit does not execute the image recognition processing, the control unit sets the first and second control values to be different from each other, even if an object field has a constant luminance.