US Patent 7336314 Image acquiring method and image acquiring apparatus

The image acquiring method and image acquiring apparatus photograph an image of a subject using stroboscopic light as external illumination. The method and apparatus compare, in terms of color change, an image acquired without using the stroboscopic light and images acquired by using a plurality of different kinds of stroboscopic light and select one kind of stroboscopic light which has the least color change to thereby finally acquire the image from among the plurality of different kinds of stroboscopic light. There is no color change due to the use of the stroboscopic light and the image having natural color reproduction can be obtained.