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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2008
Akinobu Sugino, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomu Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masamichi Asukai, Kanagawa, JP;
Taiji Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidehiko Sekizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akane Sano, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Sakaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Itaru Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Akinobu Sugino, Kanagawa, JP;
Nozomu Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masamichi Asukai, Kanagawa, JP;
Taiji Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Hidehiko Sekizawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akane Sano, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Sakaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiteru Kamatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoichiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Itaru Kawakami, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup section that picks up images to obtain picked-up-image-data items, a temporarily retaining section that temporarily retains the picked-up-image-data items, a storage-process section that performs a storage process on the picked-up-image-data items, a movement-detecting section that detects a movement of the image-pickup apparatus, an operation section that performs a shutter operation, and a control section that causes the temporarily retaining section to retain picked-up-image-data items in a shutter-operation period, that selects, on the basis of detection results obtained by the movement-detecting section in the shutter-operation period, a picked-up-image-data item from among the retained picked-up-image-data items, and that causes the storage-process section to perform the storage process on the selected picked-up-image-data item.