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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2015
Imaging device and imaging method for composing a non-visible light image and a visibile light image
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Shogo Tanaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Tabei, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging section including an imaging sensor section of a rolling shutter system, a condition designator that sets an imaging condition using first auxiliary light which is non-visible light as an imaging condition for the imaging section and an imaging condition using visible light with the first auxiliary light as non-emitted light, and alternately designates the imaging condition and a light emission condition of the first auxiliary light at a cycle of at least two frames in a time division basis, a first light emitter that emits the first auxiliary light according to the light emission condition; and an image composer that composes a non-visible light image captured by the imaging section under the imaging condition using the first auxiliary light during a first period in which the first auxiliary light is emitted and a visible light image captured by the imaging section under the imaging condition using the visible light during a second period subsequent to the first period.