Patent ID: 7212239

Claim:
An image pickup device with a flash, the image pickup device comprising: an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of a subject; a correction table recording unit configured to record a light quantity distribution correction table used to correct data for the image picked up by the image pickup unit, based on a light quantity distribution when the subject is photographed using the flash; an image pickup data correction unit configured to correct the data for the picked-up image, using the light quantity distribution correction table; a distance measurement unit configured to measure a distance between the image pickup unit and the subject, wherein the correction table recording unit is further configured to store a plurality of the light quantity distribution correction tables, each light quantity distribution correction table corresponding to a respective distance between the image pickup unit and the subject, and the image pickup data correction unit is further configured to correct the data for the picked-up image using one of the plurality of the light quantity distribution correction tables which corresponds to the distance measured by the distance measurement unit.