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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
Tetsuya Konishi, Machida, JP;
Tetsuya Konishi, Machida, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device comprising an image pickup sensor that captures an image of a subject, a storage unit that temporarily stores a plurality of frames of image data captured by the image pickup sensor, a detection unit that detects identity or non-identity between at least two image data consecutively captured by the image pickup sensor adjacent in time based on a predetermined image characteristic quantity, and a control unit that controls the device to write the later captured image data in the storage unit when the detection unit detects the non-identity and to not write the later captured image data in the storage unit when it detects the identity.