IMAGE CAPTURE APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

An imaging apparatus and method are provided configured for discriminating between sky and non-sky regions. The apparatus comprises a UV-passing image forming element and a UV-sensing image capturing sensor for capturing an image projected from the UV- passing image forming element. The image comprising at least one of sky and non-sky image regions and the image captured by the sensor is provided to an image processing unit for performing discrimination between sky and non-sky regions of the captured image using primarily UV wavelengths.