Image pickup apparatus

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2007-08-24

2011-10-11

Mehta, Bhavesh (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image enhancement or restoration

Intensity, brightness, contrast, or shading correction

C382S284000, C382S255000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08036486

ABSTRACT:
It is an object of the present invention to provide an image pickup apparatus which informs a user of a state of brightness adjusting operation and which has excellent usability for the user. Disclosed is a digital camera including an image adder5dfor synthesizing a plurality of continuously taken image frames to produce a synthesized image, an image processing apparatus5for executing image brightness adjusting processing for synthesizing a required synthesis number of image frames and adjusting brightness of the synthesized image at the time of continuous picture-taking of a subject, and a display device for displaying an image which is being synthesized by the image adder in the image brightness adjusting processing.

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