- Patent Title: Image capture apparatus having illumination section, monitoring system including image capture apparatus, method of controlling image capture apparatus, and storage medium
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Application No.: US16549314Application Date: 2019-08-23
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Publication No.: US10887527B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Aihiko Numata
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2018-161685 20180830
- Main IPC: H04N5/235
- IPC: H04N5/235 ; H04N5/247 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
An image capture apparatus capable of improving the quality of an image captured using illumination. A multi-eye image capture section has image capture sections that capture images in different image capture ranges partially overlapping with each other to generate a wide-angle image. A single-eye image capture section captures an image in part of the image capture ranges of the multi-eye image capture section and changes an image capture direction. When performing image capture using illumination, the exposure level of a first image capture section of the multi-eye image capture section, having an image capture range overlapping with the image capture range of the single-eye image capture section is controlled to be lower than the exposure level of a second image capture section having an image capture range not overlapping with the image capture range of the single-eye image capture section.
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