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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2012
Yoshinao Shimada, Hino, JP;
Kazuhiro Haneda, Hachioji, JP;
Makoto Ikeda, Kunitachi, JP;
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to an image pickup apparatus including a pixel section in which plural pixels are arrayed two-dimensionally, an exposure amount control section that determines an exposure amount and controls the pixel section to be continuously exposed plural times, a memory section that can store a pixel signal from the pixel section for plural frames of an output image, a vertical scanning circuit that reads out the pixel signal of the pixel section and stores the pixel signal in the memory section, and a column processing section that reads out the pixel signal stored in the memory section. The vertical scanning circuit sequentially reads out respective pixel signals related to the plural times of exposures and stores the pixel signals in the memory section.