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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2004
Takeshi Tsukagoshi, Tachikawa, JP;
Tomohiko Murakami, Kokubunji, JP;
Takeshi Tsukagoshi, Tachikawa, JP;
Tomohiko Murakami, Kokubunji, JP;
Casio Computer Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
PDs and vertical CCDs are formed on CCD. A control unit drives the CCD by one of a first image pickup mode for executing an exposure and reading the electric charges on the vertical CCDs and transferring those, and a second image pickup mode for setting an electric charge sweep-out period in which the electric charges are swept out by applying a plurality of vertical shift clocks to the vertical CCDs within a period from a time when a transfer period in which the electric charges obtained by exposing the PDs are read on the vertical CCDs and transferred those is terminated up to a time when a next transfer period is started.