Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device, imaging device control method and program
- Patent Title (中): 成像设备,成像设备控制方法和程序
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Application No.: US12931543Application Date: 2011-02-03
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Publication No.: US08817107B2Publication Date: 2014-08-26
- Inventor: Takuya Matsumoto , Xiaobo Zhou , Yuanyuan Pan , Li Li
- Applicant: Takuya Matsumoto , Xiaobo Zhou , Yuanyuan Pan , Li Li
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sony Corporation
- Priority: JPP2010-028041 20100210
- Main IPC: H04N5/33
- IPC: H04N5/33 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/232 ; G03B7/18 ; H04N5/225

Abstract:
An imaging device that includes a control unit is provided. The control unit switches between a day mode and a night mode. In the day mode, image capture is performed while an infrared cut filter is placed on an optical path, and in the night mode, image capture is performed while the infrared cut filter is removed from the optical path. Immediately after shifting from the day mode to the night mode, in the night mode, as the amount of incident light decreases, the control unit increases an irradiation intensity of an infrared irradiation portion from zero while a gain is maintained at a first gain value. When the amount of the incident light further decreases after the irradiation intensity reaches a maximum, the control portion increases the gain from the first gain value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110193967A1 Imaging device, imaging device control method and program Public/Granted day:2011-08-11
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