Patent 8228397 was granted and assigned to Konica Minolta Holdings on July, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image sensing apparatus includes: an image sensing section for sensing an image of a subject; a detector for detecting a luminance of the subject; a compressor for compressing a dynamic range of the subject image; and a controller for controlling a compression characteristic to be used in compressing the dynamic range based on a detection result of the detector.