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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1983
Makoto Masunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuo Tezuka, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pick-up device using image pick-up device having a photoelectric converting portion and a memory portion for storing therein image information formed in the converting portion, and a light source for illuminating an object to be photographed, has an inhibiting device for inhibiting the light emission of the light source while the image information in the photoelectric converting portion is transferred to the memory portion. The amount of accumulation after the accumulation of image signals in the image pick-up device is started is discriminated and control is effected such that the illuminating light source is caused to functionally act when the amount of accumulation does not reach a predetermined amount.