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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2008
Applicants:

Takashi Onoda, Tokyo, JP;

Akira Miyata, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Onoda, Tokyo, JP;

Akira Miyata, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G03B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Herein disclosed is an imaging apparatus, carrying out a step of calculating an exposure value based on image data obtained by the imaging section, a step of computing a shutter speed by mean of, for example, a program AE control in accordance with the exposure value calculated in the calculation step; a step of determining, in accordance with the shutter speed computed in the computation step, a continuous shooting speed indicative of the number of photographs per unit time; and a step of driving the imaging section so that a photographing operation is carried out with the continuous shooting speed thus determined.


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