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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2006
Noriaki Ojima, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsutoshi Kitajima, Tokyo, JP;
Kohichi Sugiura, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Nakahira, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Noriaki Ojima, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsutoshi Kitajima, Tokyo, JP;
Kohichi Sugiura, Tokyo, JP;
Toshiaki Nakahira, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiro Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus that includes a device for discharging charge or F/E-IC for discharging charge accumulated in an imaging device or CCD and for canceling exposure in a discharging term of the charge. The imaging apparatus also includes a light shielding device or mechanical shutter unit for a mechanical shutter, which shields light by the mechanical shutter, and a control device or CPU block for hastening by a predetermined time the charge discharging term of the CCD in the discharging device and a light shielding timing of the mechanical shutter in the light shielding device, when a shutter speed for recording a subject is more than a predetermined time.