US 2006/0050154 A1Published application

Imaging device

AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsAkio Kobayashi, Shigeru Miki

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

In an imaging device of the present invention, an imaging element 2 is driven in a thinning read-out mode for reading out signal charges from a subset of pixels, or in an all-pixels read-out mode for reading out signal charges from all pixels. When the imaging element 2 is driven in the thinning read-out mode, the imaging device processes and records a series of first image data that is obtained by reading out signal charges from the subset of pixels and that constitutes the moving images. When the imaging element 2 is driven in the all-pixels read-out mode, the imaging device processes and records a series of second image data constituting moving images after the number of pixels of the second image data is thinned, and processes and records a portion of the second image data as a still image without thinning when an instruction to pick up the still image is given while picking up the moving images.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An imaging device, comprising:

an imaging element driven in a thinning read-out mode for reading out signal charges from a subset of pixels, or in an all-pixels read-out mode for reading out signal charges from all pixels,
wherein if moving images are picked up by driving the imaging element in the thinning read-out mode, a series of first image data that is obtained by reading out signal charges repeatedly from the subset of pixels and that constitutes the moving images is processed and recorded, and a portion of the first image data is processed and recorded as a still image when an instruction to pick up the still image is given while picking up the moving images, and
wherein if moving images are picked up by driving the imaging element in the all-pixels read-out mode, a series of second image data that is obtained by reading out signal charges repeatedly from all of the pixels and that constitutes the moving images is processed and recorded after the number of pixels of the second image data is thinned, and a portion of the second image data is processed and recorded as a still image without thinning when an instruction to pick up the still image is given while picking up the moving images.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/538,872Filed 4 Aug 2004
Priority: JP 2003-206668 Aug 2003
Published: 9 Mar 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04N 23/667
Control of cameras or camera modules: camera operation mode switching, e.g. between still and video, sport and normal or high- and low-resolution…
H04N 1/212
Using still video cameras: motion video recording combined with still video recording
H04N 5/772
Between a recording apparatus and a television camera: the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
H04N 23/63
Control of cameras or camera modules: by using electronic viewfinders

Family

US 7,369,683 B2Related patent
US 2006/0050154 A1This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Timeline

Citations

Open elsewhere

Building an agent or pulling many patents? Use the API or MCP server instead of scraping pages. Get an API key