Imaging device and imaging method
AssigneeSony Group Corporation
InventorsFuminori Nohara, Tatsuya Tanaka
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an imaging device and an imaging method capable of shortening an imaging interval in high-speed continuous imaging. A temporary memory, which temporarily stores image data transferred from an image sensor and then transfers the image data to a main memory, in a case where high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, sequentially stores a plurality of pieces of the image data transferred from the image sensor at a predetermined speed in a state where the transfer of the image data to the main memory is stopped, and then sequentially transfers the plurality of pieces of stored image data to the main memory at a speed lower than the predetermined speed. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.
Claims17
An imaging device, comprising:
- a sensor unit configured to capture an image and transfer the captured image as image data;
- and
- a temporary memory configured to:
- temporarily store the image data transferred from the sensor unit;
- and
- transfer the image data to a main memory, wherein
- in a case where high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, the temporary memory is further configured to:
- sequentially store a plurality of pieces of the image data, corresponding to a plurality of images, transferred from the sensor unit at a determined speed in a state where the transfer of the image data to the main memory is stopped, wherein the plurality of images includes the captured image;
- and
- sequentially transfer the stored plurality of pieces of the image data to the main memory after a stop of the high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, wherein the stored plurality of pieces of the image data is transferred to the main memory at a speed lower than the determined speed.
An imaging method, comprising:
- in an imaging device including a sensor unit configured to capture an image and transfer the captured image as image data, and a temporary memory configured to temporarily store the image data transferred from the sensor unit and transfer the image data to a main memory:
- in a case where high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, sequentially storing a plurality of pieces of the image data, corresponding to a plurality of images, transferred from the sensor unit at a determined speed in a state where the transfer of the image data to the main memory is stopped, wherein the plurality of images includes the captured image;
- and
- sequentially transferring the stored plurality of pieces of the image data to the main memory after a stop of the high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, wherein the stored plurality of pieces of the image data is transferred to the main memory at a speed lower than the determined speed.
An imaging device, comprising:
- a sensor unit configured to capture an image and transfer the captured image as image data;
- and
- a temporary memory configured to:
- temporarily store the image data transferred from the sensor unit;
- and
- transfer the image data to a main memory, wherein
- in a case where high-speed continuous imaging is instructed, the temporary memory is further configured to:
- sequentially store a plurality of pieces of the image data transferred from the sensor unit at a determined speed in a state where the transfer of the image data to the main memory is stopped;
- and
- sequentially transfer the stored plurality of pieces of the image data to the main memory at a speed lower than the determined speed, and
- in a case where normal continuous imaging is instructed, the temporary memory is further configured to:
- function as a configuration capable of storing the image data of one image;
- temporarily store the image data and then transfer the image data to the main memory after the image data is transferred at the determined speed from the sensor unit;
- and
- temporarily store new image data transferred at the determined speed from the sensor unit and then transfer the new image data to the main memory, until stop of the normal continuous imaging is instructed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.