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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2011
Applicants:
Kazuhiro Haneda, Hachioji, JP;
Makoto Ikeda, Kunitachi, JP;
Inventors:
Kazuhiro Haneda, Hachioji, JP;
Makoto Ikeda, Kunitachi, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 9/07 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention provides an image pickup apparatus that performs an image pickup operation that alternately repeats a long exposure LE and a short exposure SE. The image pickup apparatus drives an image pickup device in a first driving mode that makes a first time interval between an exposure end time of a pixel in an SE and an exposure start time of the pixel in an LE immediately thereafter and a second time interval between the exposure end time of the pixel in the LE and the exposure start time of the pixel in the SE immediately thereafter equal.