초록 ▼

At least one exemplary embodiment can control light emission so as to facilitate a face area of a subject to be adequately photographed. In the at least one exemplary embodiment, respective face areas of the subject can be detected from captured image signals acquired before and after preliminary li

At least one exemplary embodiment can control light emission so as to facilitate a face area of a subject to be adequately photographed. In the at least one exemplary embodiment, respective face areas of the subject can be detected from captured image signals acquired before and after preliminary light emission, and a luminance comparison calculation can be performed between the detected face areas from the captured image signals, so that light amount control can be performed in an area centered on the face area of the subject.

대표청구항 ▼

What is claimed is: 1. An image capture apparatus comprising:a first image data acquiring unit configured to acquire first image data when preliminary light emission is not performed;a second image data acquiring unit configured to acquire second image data when preliminary light emission is perform

What is claimed is: 1. An image capture apparatus comprising:a first image data acquiring unit configured to acquire first image data when preliminary light emission is not performed;a second image data acquiring unit configured to acquire second image data when preliminary light emission is performed;a face area detection unit configured to detect a face area of a subject from at least one of the first image data acquired by the first image data acquiring unit and the second image data acquired by the second image data acquiring unit;a luminance comparison calculation unit configured to compare the first image data and the second image data with respect to luminance based on the face area of the subject detected by the face area detection unit and calculate at least one luminance comparison value; anda main light emission amount determination unit configured to determine an amount of main light emission based on the at least one luminance comparison value calculated by the luminance comparison calculation unit.