Patent ID: 8189060

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising: an image sensing unit adapted to sense images of a subject in time series; a calculation unit adapted to calculate an evaluation value of scene determination used for determination of a condition of said subject, for one of said images sensed by said image sensing unit; a scene determination unit adapted to determine said condition of said subject based on said evaluation value of scene determination calculated by said calculation unit; an operation receiving unit adapted to receive an instruction from a user to start a preparation of sensing a still image and an instruction from the user to start sensing a still image; and a control unit adapted to control said scene determination unit and, if said operation receiving unit receives said instruction to start sensing a still image, further control said image sensing unit to perform sensing one still image based on said condition of said subject determined by said scene determination unit, wherein if said operation receiving unit receives said instruction to start the preparation of sensing a still image, said control unit further controls said scene determination unit to determine said condition of said subject based on said evaluation value of scene determination calculated from an image sensed by said image sensing unit immediately after the luminance of said images converges to a predetermined range of a target luminance.