Image pickup apparatus of which display start timing and display quality are selectable, method of controlling the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShintaro Shimokura, Ayaka Kinoshita, Taro Matsuno
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus of which the display start timing and the display quality are selectable. The image pickup apparatus has a switch which selectively switches display data to be displayed on a display device between the first display data output by the first output circuit, and the second display data output by the second output circuit, and display the first display data or the second display data on the display device, wherein the first display data is generated by the image data output by the image pickup device developed, and the second display data is generated by the image data transferred by a transfer circuit developed.
Claims14
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup device which converts a received light into an electrical signal to output image data;
- a first development circuit which develops the image data output by the image pickup device to generate first display data;
- a first output circuit which outputs the first display data generated by the first development circuit;
- a second development circuit which develops the output image data transferred by a transfer circuit, to generate second display data;
- a second output circuit which outputs the second display data generated by the second development circuit through a different path from a path used for the output by the first output circuit;
- a display device;
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- a switch which selectively switches display data supplied to the display device to be displayed on the display device between the first display data output by the first output circuit and the second display data output by the second output circuit,
- wherein the image pickup device and the first development circuit are provided in an image sensor, with the image pickup device and the first development circuit stacked.
A method for controlling an image pickup apparatus that has a display device, comprising:
- converting, by an image pickup device, a received light into an electrical signal to output image data;
- first developing, by a first development circuit, the output image data to generate first display data;
- first outputting the first display data generated by the first developing;
- second developing the output image data to generate second display data;
- second outputting the second display data generated by the second developing through a different path from a path used for the output by the first outputting;
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- selectively switching display data to be displayed on the display device between the first display data output by the first outputting and the second display data output by the second outputting, and displaying the first display data or the second display data on the display device,
- wherein the image pickup device and the first development circuit are provided in an image sensor, with the image pickup device and the first development circuit stacked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.