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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2008
Yuichi Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Yuichi Suzuki, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus having as a shooting mode a normal shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode for generating a plurality of pieces of image data, includes a setting unit operable to set a shooting mode, an imaging element having as a read mode a normal read mode for outputting image signals of all pixels and a mixing read mode for mixing and outputting an image signal of a predetermined pixel and image signals of peripheral pixels of the predetermined pixel, and a pixel mixing controller operable to control the read mode of the imaging element. The pixel mixing controller controls the imaging element to operate in the mixing read mode when the shooting mode is set to the continuous shooting mode.
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