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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2007
Hiroshi Miyanari, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Miyanari, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus is provided which includes an image sensor including a plurality of photoelectric conversion units, an output unit configured to output a signal from the plurality of photoelectric conversion units, and a reading unit configured to read the signal from the plurality of photoelectric conversion units via the output unit, a display unit configured to display image data from the image sensor, and a control unit configured to control a first operation in which image data serially read from the image sensor is displayed by the display unit as a serial image and a second operation in which a still image is shot according to an instruction for picking up the still image while the first operation is being performed, and further configured to restrain/inhibit supplying power to the output unit at a predetermined timing during a time period in which the first operation is being performed.