Patent Document ID: 8493458
Application ID: 12943193
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image capture apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit; a light emitting unit; a first image capture controller configured to control the image capturing unit to capture a plurality of images at a first timing; a second image capture controller configured to control the image capturing unit to capture a plurality of images under a capturing condition illuminated by the light emitting unit at a second timing that is either directly before or directly after the first timing; an addition combination section configured to positionally align the images captured under control by the first image capture controller and to perform an addition combination on the aligned images to generate a combined image; a selector configured to evaluate a face image included in the images captured under control by the second image capture controller and to select one of the images most highly evaluated as a selected image; a determination section configured to perform positional alignment between an image selected by the selector and the plurality of images captured under control by the first image capture controller, and to determine whether or not the images substantially match with each other; and a combination section configured to combine the combined image generated by the addition combination section with an image captured under control by the second image capture controller; wherein the selector selects the image most highly evaluated, when the determination section determines that there is a substantial match; wherein the selector selects an image captured under control by the second image capture controller at a timing nearest to the first timing, when the determination section determines that there is no substantial match; and wherein the combination section is configured to combine the combined image with the selected image.