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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masashi Murakita, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/222 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is an imaging device including: a light emission control section configured to obtain a delay time from issuance to a flash of a light emission trigger indicating light emission start timing of the flash to reaching of a predetermined value by light emission luminance of the flash; an imaging control section configured to control exposure start timing on a basis of the delay time; and a correction amount calculating section configured to calculate, on the basis of the delay time, an amount of correction used when brightness of a taken image taken from the exposure start timing is corrected.