US 11,871,116 B2
Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, and storage medium for calculating image capturing condition which enables privacy of object to be protected
Kentaro Fukunaga, Kanagawa (JP); Kanta Sunami, Kanagawa (JP); and Toshiyuki Fukui, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/585,278.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-013539 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2021; and application No. 2021-013540 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0247910 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/72 (2023.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04N 5/272 (2006.01); H04N 23/71 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/72 (2023.01) [G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); H04N 5/272 (2013.01); H04N 23/71 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising:
an image sensor that can set an exposure condition for each of areas on an image capturing plane of the image sensor;
at least one processor; and
a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
set a privacy area in a captured image that was captured by the image sensor;
decide an exposure condition of the privacy area as an exposure condition that enables privacy of an object in the privacy area to be protected; and
control for causing the image sensor to capture an image of the object based on the decided exposure condition.