Abstract: There is provided an image pickup apparatus including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a gain acquisition unit for acquiring a gain used to correct an output of the phase difference detection pixels, and a correction processing unit for correcting the output of the phase difference detection pixels using the gain acquired by the gain acquisition unit.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing device including an instruction input acquiring unit configured to acquire an instruction input by a user, a trimming frame setting unit configured to set a trimming frame used to trim an image based on the input instruction, and a detection frame setting unit configured to set a detection frame representing a range in which detection of the image is performed to the trimming frame.

Abstract: There is provided an image pickup apparatus including an image sensor including a plurality of phase difference detection pixels that each perform pupil division of a photographing lens, a gain acquisition unit for acquiring a gain used to correct an output of the phase difference detection pixels, and a correction processing unit for correcting the output of the phase difference detection pixels using the gain acquired by the gain acquisition unit.

Abstract: An image capturing apparatus which may for example be a digital camera is capable of reading respective pieces of information stored in IC tags. These pieces of information stored in the IC tags are each given additional information in advance that indicates the degree of priority of the stored information. Thus even when mutually incompatible shooting conditions are requested in the respective pieces of information stored in these IC tags, stored information given high priority can be selected based on the degree of priority indicated by the foregoing additional information. As a result, the image capturing apparatus is allowed to operate in a suitable manner even when mutually incompatible pieces of information are received from a plurality of IC tags.

Abstract: An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which picks up an image of a photographic object and a selector which selects a first photographing mode or a second photographing mode and a controller. The second photographing mode is a mode for composing a plurality of picked-up images to create a composite image. The controller makes the image sensor pickup a photographic object image on the first photographing condition when the first photographing mode is selected by the selector, and makes the image sensor pick up a plurality of images of photographic objects on the second photographing condition different from said first photographing condition when the second photographing mode is selected by the selector.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image pick-up element that can read out pixel data in a nondestructive manner, specifying means for specifying addresses of a plurality of pixels thinned out among all pixels of the image pick-up element, and data read-out means for reading out pixel data of the specified plurality of pixels in a destructive manner before a main exposure and pixel data of the specified plurality of pixels in a nondestructive manner during said main exposure.

Abstract: An image taking apparatus is provided with a CCD array, a shake correcting unit for correcting a relative displacement of an optical axis of a taking lens and the CCD array resulting from a shake, a CCD position controlling table for detecting a relative position of the optical axis and the CCD array, a memory for storing an arrangement pattern on comparison points beforehand, a color shading correction data table memory for storing color shading correction information patterns of the respective colors at the respective comparison points of the arrangement pattern, a color shading correction data setting section for setting a color shading correction information pattern at the comparison point close to the relative position through the comparison of the relative position with the respective comparison points, and an image processor for carrying out color shading corrections to a photographed image in accordance with the newly set color shading correction information pattern.

Abstract: An image taking apparatus includes an image sensor which picks up an image of a photographic object and a selector which selects a first photographing mode or a second photographing mode and a controller. The second photographing mode is a mode for composing a plurality of picked-up images to create a composite image. The controller makes the image sensor pickup a photographic object image on the first photographing condition when the first photographing mode is selected by the selector, and makes the image sensor pick up a plurality of images of photographic objects on the second photographing condition different from said first photographing condition when the second photographing mode is selected by the selector.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an image pick-up element that can read out pixel data in a nondestructive manner, specifying means for specifying addresses of a plurality of pixels thinned out among all pixels of the image pick-up element, and data read-out means for reading out pixel data of the specified plurality of pixels in a destructive manner before a main exposure and pixel data of the specified plurality of pixels in a nondestructive manner during said main exposure.