IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS

Title:

IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2007/094282

Kind Code:

A1

Abstract:

An image pickup apparatus with a shake correction function wherein any front curtain shocks are inhibited from affecting a shake correction function part (shake correction drive). There are included a shake detecting sensor (171) that determines the amount of a shake applied to a digital camera; a shake correction unit (200) that performs, based on a shake amount determination signal, a shake correction drive of an image pickup element (101); a shutter unit (40) that is disposed just before the image pickup element (101) to open/close an optical path leading to the image pickup element (101); a timing control circuit (51) that applies a predetermined reset signal to the pixels associated with predetermined pixel lines of the image pickup element (101) so as to cause the image pickup element (101) to start an exposure operation; and a shutter control part (623) that controls the exposure operation of the image pickup element (101). During an image pickup, the shutter control part (623) executes an electronic shutter control (electronic focal plane shutter) that uses the reset signal applied from the timing control circuit (51) to the pixels to cause the image pickup element (101) to start the exposure operator.

Inventors:

MURASHIMA NOBUHARU (JP)
KIDO TOSHIHITO (JP)
TANAKA YOSHIHARU (JP)
HONDA TSUTOMU (JP)

Application Number:

PCT/JP2007/052458

Publication Date:

August 23, 2007

Filing Date:

February 13, 2007

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Assignee:

SONY CORP (JP)
MURASHIMA NOBUHARU (JP)
KIDO TOSHIHITO (JP)
TANAKA YOSHIHARU (JP)
HONDA TSUTOMU (JP)

International Classes:

H04N5/238; G03B5/00; G03B9/08; H04N5/225; H04N5/232; H04N101/00

Foreign References:

JP2005184380A	2005-07-07
JP2005159711A	2005-06-16
JPH1141523A	1999-02-12
JPH05199451A	1993-08-06
JP2004140793A	2004-05-13
JP2006078897A	2006-03-23

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