Sony Corporation

Yoshiharau Tanaka

Nobuharu Murashima

Tsutomu Honda

Toshihito Kido

In an imaging apparatus with a shake correction function, the influence of front curtain shock is prevented from being exerted on a shake correction function section (shake correction drive). The imaging apparatus includes a shake detection sensorthat detects an amount of shake applied to a digital camera, a shake correction unitthat performs a shake correction drive of an imaging deviceon the basis of a shake amount detection signal, a shutter unitthat is arranged immediately in front of the imaging deviceand performs an optical-path opening operation and an optical-path blocking operation for opening and blocking an optical path of light guided to the imaging device, a timing control circuitthat supplies a predetermined reset signal to each pixel for each predetermined pixel line so as to start exposure on the imaging device, and a shutter control sectionthat controls exposure of the imaging device. At the time of shooting, the shutter control sectionexecutes an electronic shutter control (electronic focal plane shutter) for starting exposure on the imaging deviceby means of the reset signal supplied to each pixel from the timing control circuit

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Minato, Japan

Yoshiharau Tanaka