Patent ID: 6982755

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus comprising: a noise reduction device that, utilizing time correlation of sensed images, reduces noise added to the sensed images; a zoom controller that controls a zoom magnification factor of the image sensing apparatus; a determination device that determines whether said zoom controller is executing a zoom operation; a setting device that sets a control value for time correlation in said noise reduction device in accordance with a determination by said determination device; an optical zoom device that performs optical zooming of an image of an object; and an electronic zoom device that performs processing of the image of the object, wherein said zoom controller controls said optical zoom device for optically zooming the image of the object and said electronic zoom device for electronically processing the image of the object, and wherein said electronic zoom device executes a zoom operation for an image in which noise has been reduced by said noise reduction device and said setting device sets the control value to a control value providing a lower noise reduction amount than a noise reduction amount to be used when said electronic zoom device executes the zoom operation, when it is determined that said optical zoom device executes the zoom operation.