Camera apparatus and method of taking pictures including...

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2006-04-25

2006-04-25

Garber, Wendy R. (Department: 2612)

Television

Camera, system and detail

With electronic viewfinder or display monitor

C348S254000, C348S241000, C348S252000, C348S273000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07034878

ABSTRACT:
A camera apparatus including a camera unit which acquires an image, a line-of-sight detection unit which detects a point of eye fixation of a user within a camera screen, and an importance computation unit which determines levels of importance for respective areas of the image acquired by the camera unit in accordance with the detection by the line-of-sight detection unit. Also included is a number-of-gray-scale-level determining unit which changes a number of gray scale levels for the respective areas of the image in response to the determination by the importance computation unit.

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