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Title:
IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2014149459
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly calculate an amount of light to be emitted at actual flash and to reduce a release time lag, in an imaging apparatus having two CMOS type imaging elements.SOLUTION: In the imaging apparatus including first and second imaging elements (14 and 24) and a flash (48), the accumulation start timing and read-out timing of the electric charge of the first and second imaging elements and the timing of pre-flashing the flash are controlled, so that when imaging is performed by pre-flashing the flash, the partial region of the first imaging element is exposed with the reflected light of pre-flash, while the electric charge is accumulated, another partial region is not exposed with the reflected light of the pre-flash, while the electric charge is accumulated, the region of the second imaging element corresponding to the partial region is not exposed with the reflected light of the pre-flash, while the electric charge is accumulated, and the region of the second imaging element corresponding to the another partial region is exposed with the reflected light of the pre-flash, while the electric charge is accumulated.

Inventors:
MORITOMO HIROSHI
Application Number:
JP2013018959A
Publication Date:
August 21, 2014
Filing Date:
February 01, 2013
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
G03B15/05; G03B7/093; G03B7/16; G03B7/28; G03B15/03; G03B19/07; G03B35/08; H04N13/02
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yasunari Otsuka
Shiro Takayanagi
Yasuhiro Otsuka
Hideji Kimura
Shimoyama 治
Yukimitsu Nagagawa