Patent ID: 8149291

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an image capture unit photoelectrically converting an image of an object field formed by an image capture optical system; a light metering unit different from the image capture unit; an amount-of-exposure setting unit setting an amount of exposure on the image capture unit based on luminance information on the object field obtained by the light metering unit; a predicted-value calculating unit calculating a predicted signal level value that is a predicted value of a luminance signal level that is predicted to be output from the image capture unit when the image capture unit is exposed based on the amount of exposure set by the amount-of-exposure setting unit; and wherein the luminance signal is determined based on RGB signals and is different from a color signal; and a control-value setting unit setting a white balance control value based on the predicted signal level value and an actual signal level value that is an actual value of luminance signal level output from the image capture unit when the image capture unit is exposed based on the amount of exposure set by the amount-of-exposure setting unit, wherein, if the actual signal level value is larger than the predicted signal level value by a predetermined amount, the control-value setting unit sets the white balance control value according to a color temperature of the flash light, and wherein, if the actual signal level value is not larger than the predicted signal level value by the predetermined amount, the control-value setting unit sets the white balance control value according to a color temperature different from the color temperature of the flash light.