Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device, and storage medium storing a control program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8964087-B2
Application number	US-201414315456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2014
Priority date	Dec 27, 2011
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

A large difference in exposure timing is prevented from arising in cases in which plural pixels have a common amplifier, even when image data is read by thinning
An imaging apparatus ( 10 ) includes: an image pickup device ( 14 ) including plural photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in first and second directions; an amplification means that treats (K×L) pixels as respective common pixels and amplifies an image capture signal for each of the common pixels; a color filter that is provided with a repeatedly disposed basic array pattern or first and second filters placed in a predetermined pattern of (N×M) pixels; and an image processing section ( 20 ) and a drive section ( 22 ) that perform charge sweeping by applying sequential shutter pulses to the image pickup device ( 14 ) in turn to each pixel, or to each scan line, or to each of plural pixels on a scan line, that read pixel signals of the plural pixels at a set cycle, that, from the read pixel signals, generate line image data of pixels that are arrayed running along the second direction at a cycle of from K pixels to N pixels in the first direction, and that generate image data based on the line image data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An imaging apparatus comprising:
an image pickup device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a predetermined first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction;
an amplification section that treats as respective common pixels (K×L) pixels in the first direction and the second direction (wherein K, L are integers of 2 or more), and amplifies an image capture signal for each of the common pixels;…

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Kurahashi Hidekazu
• Hayashi Kenkichi
• Tanaka Seiji
• Kawai Tomoyuki
• Kawamura Noriko

Classifications

• H04N25/447

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/843

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/531 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/778

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/134

  Electricity · mapped topic