Title:
撮像装置及び撮像システム
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP4371795
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
An image-taking apparatus is provided with an image-pickup device, a control circuit and a detection circuit. The image-pickup device includes a plurality of pixels and the control circuit controls the driving of the image-pickup device. The detection circuit detects the movement of an object in an image-taking area based on an image signal generated using the image-pickup device. The control circuit controls the driving of the image-pickup device so as to take an image with a first number of pixels when the detection circuit does not detect any movement of the object and take an image with a second number of pixels which is larger than the first number of pixels when some movement of the object is detected.
Inventors:
Kawai Hisa
Application Number:
JP2003410943A
Publication Date:
November 25, 2009
Filing Date:
December 09, 2003
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Canon Inc
International Classes:
H04N5/232; H04N5/225; H04N5/228; H04N7/18
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2002034030A | ||||
| JP11252534A | ||||
| JP2003134386A | ||||
| JP10276367A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Ryosuke Fujimoto
Atsushi Mizumoto
Atsushi Mizumoto