Image capture apparatus and zooming method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9232148-B2
Application number	US-201113005283-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 12, 2011
Priority date	Jan 26, 2010
Publication date	Jan 5, 2016
Grant date	Jan 5, 2016

Abstract

An image capture apparatus comprises an X-Y address scan type image sensor; a flicker detector configured to detect a flicker of a light source; a switch configured to switch the image sensor between a first state in which the image sensor is driven by a first driving method which comprises reading out a pixel signal within a range of a first angle of view and a second state in which the image sensor is driven by a second driving method which comprises reading out a pixel signal within a range of a second angle of view narrower than the first driving method; and a controller configured to control the switch so as to drive the image sensor by the first driving method while the flicker detector is detecting the flicker and to drive image sensor by the second driving method when the flicker detector has completed flicker detection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image capture apparatus which includes a zoom mode in which a size of an area read out from an image sensor is changed, comprising:
a flicker detector configured to detect a flicker based on output from the image sensor;
a displaying controller configured to be capable to display an image zoomed to the telephoto side in the zoom mode; and

a system controller that automatically controls the displaying controller to delay zooming so that after a…

Assignees

• Sugie Kazuhiko
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Sugie Kazuhiko

Classifications

• H04N23/73

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/745

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/69

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/70 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/2357

  Electricity · mapped topic