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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2010
Yasuo Takane, Yokohama, JP;
Yasuo Takane, Yokohama, JP;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An image having good image quality is obtained by discharging charges accumulated in an image pickup device. A photographing apparatus, which includes an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form and photographs a subject by light-exposing the image pickup device, includes: a detector for detecting a photographing state of the subject; an operation controller for controlling an operation of a curtain body traveling to block light to the image pickup device; and a scan controller for controlling a light-exposure start scan of the image pickup device by discharging charges accumulated in the image pickup device before the traveling of the curtain body, wherein the scan controller discharges the charges accumulated in the image pickup device a plurality of times according to the photographing state of the subject.