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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2006
Toshiaki Nakahira, Yokohama, JP;
Toshiaki Nakahira, Yokohama, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes: a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of vertical transfer paths disposed in respective vertical lines of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and configured to vertically transfer charges, a single horizontal transfer path configured to horizontally transfer the charges transferred from each of the vertical transfer paths, and two charge/voltage converters provided in both ends of the horizontal transfer path; and a transfer signal controller configured to control directions to which the charges are transferred in the horizontal transfer path, wherein the solid-state image pickup device is driven such that the image pickup signals are outputted from the two charge/voltage converters when a monitoring operation is carried out, and is driven such that the image pickup signals are outputted from one of the two charge/voltage converters when obtaining the image pickup signals for recording of a still image.
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