Patent ID: 7733383

Claim:
An image capture apparatus comprising: an image capture unit configured to capture an image of an object and output image data; a light emitting unit comprising light emitting elements configured to respectively emit lights of different colors; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a color property of a light source irradiating the object; a first calculation unit configured to calculate an appropriate exposure value based on a brightness component of the image data output from the image capture unit; a second calculation unit configured to calculate a combined light quantity to be emitted by the light emitting elements based on the appropriate exposure value calculated by the first calculation unit; a first emission controller configured to control the light emitting unit based on the combined light quantity calculated by the second calculation unit and such that a color of the lights of different colors emitted by the light emitting elements matches the color property of the light source obtained by the obtaining unit; a white balance unit configured to perform a white balance adjustment such that a white balance of the image data output from the image capture unit is adjusted based on the color property of the light source obtained by the obtaining unit; and a control unit configured to: store image data subjected to the white balance adjustment by the white balance unit into a storage unit when the combined light quantity calculated by the second calculation unit is smaller than a quantity of an external light, and store the image data output from the image capture unit into the storage unit without being subjected to the white balance adjustment by the white balance unit when the combined light quantity calculated by the second calculation unit is not smaller than the quantity of the external light.