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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2010
Applicant:
Kenichi Kikuchi, Kawanishi, JP;
Inventor:
Kenichi Kikuchi, Kawanishi, JP;
Assignee:
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-shi, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/262 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit which forms a subject image on an image pickup device through an optical system to generate an image pickup signal; an adjustment unit which changes an optical zoom magnification with respect to the subject image; and a control unit which records image data as a moving image in a memory in response to a moving image recording command, the image data being obtained based on the image pickup signal, and stops recording the moving image for a time period during which the zoom magnification is changed.