Patent Document ID: 20080316355
Application ID: 12137774
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A camera, comprising: an imager for capturing an object scene; an assigner for assigning a plurality of metering areas to said object scene; an evaluator for evaluating a luminance of said object scene for each metering area; a classifier for classifying said plurality of metering areas into a high luminance area representing a luminance higher than a first threshold value and a low luminance area representing a luminance lower than said first threshold value on the basis of a plurality of luminance evaluated values obtained by the evaluation processing by said evaluator; a detector for detecting a boarder between said high luminance area and said low luminance area which are included in said object scene on the basis of a positional relationship between said plurality of metering areas classified by said classifier; a corrector for correcting each of said plurality of luminance evaluated values obtained by the evaluation processing by said evaluator on the basis of a size of the boarder detected by said detector; and an adjuster for adjusting an exposure amount on said imager on the basis of the luminance evaluated values corrected by said corrector.