Patent ID: 7590348

Claim:
A photographing apparatus, comprising: a plural number of photographing devices, each photographing device having a photographing region, a part of the photographing region of at least one of the photographing devices overlaps a portion of photographing region(s) of other photographing device(s); a brightness distribution detecting portion, which is configured to detect brightness levels of image signals, which are photographed by means of the plural number of photographing devices; an area determining portion configured to determine an area where the brightness level is appropriate from among photographing regions overlapping each other, in relation with the image signals photographed by said plural number of photographing devices; and a synthesizing portion configured to synthesize the image signals photographed by said plural number of photographing devices using the image signal of the area and the brightness level of the area which is determined to be appropriate by said area determining portion, wherein when the photographic devices are capturing images and there is a difference in brightness levels among the image signals in captured images, then the photographic devices are controlled such that an exposure setting of at least one photographic device is set to be greater than an exposure setting of at least another photographic device.