Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image capturing apparatus with flash device having an LED array
- Patent Title (中): 具有LED阵列的闪光装置的图像捕获装置
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Application No.: US11919078Application Date: 2006-05-26
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Publication No.: US07920205B2Publication Date: 2011-04-05
- Inventor: Kouhei Awazu
- Applicant: Kouhei Awazu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: JP2005-161835 20050601
- International Application: PCT/JP2006/311047 WO 20060526
- International Announcement: WO2006/129777 WO 20061207
- Main IPC: H04N5/222
- IPC: H04N5/222 ; G03B9/70 ; G03B15/06

Abstract:
A digital camera (10) includes a face detecting section (74), a color temperature detecting section (76) and a flash device (86) having an LED array in which RGB LEDs are regularly arranged as a light source. When a shutter button (18) is pressed halfway, the face detecting section (74) reads out image data of a through image from a memory (60) and detects a person's face in the image. A CPU (64) identifies a scene based on brightness values of face and surrounding areas as, for example, a backlit scene, and specifies a face peripheral area according to an exposure pattern corresponding to the backlit scene. When the shutter button (18) is fully pressed, the CPU (64) sends a flash projection command to an LED control circuit (87), thereby illuminating the LEDs corresponding to the face peripheral area. By controlling illumination of the RGB LEDs, the LED control circuit (87) directs to project the flash light having color temperature that corrects the person's face color into an appropriate skin color.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090073275A1 Image capturing apparatus with flash device Public/Granted day:2009-03-19
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