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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2009
Tetsumasa Yonemitsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsumasa Yonemitsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging device; an imaging device control portion supplying the imaging device with a read command signal; an operation input portion accepting an input of a flash light emission command; a control portion setting a predetermined interval as an output interval of the read command signal and setting output timing of a flash control signal to make the flash to emit light so that a period since a start till an end of light emission is included within a period since completion of reading of the signal charges till an input of a following second read command signal; and a timing control portion supplying the flash control signal to the flash and supplies a read control signal to make the read command signal be outputted at the predetermined interval according to an input of the flash light emission command and the output timing.
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