Exposure device capable of reducing unevenness in quantity of light

An exposure method of performing exposure for a plurality of pixels to form an image, comprising the steps of:

• controlling an open-close operation of a plurality of optical shutter elements corresponding to said plurality of pixels to control an amount of exposure for each of said plurality of pixels;
• detecting an accumulation of open periods of each of said plurality of optical shutter elements;
• controlling a voltage, applied to each respective one of said plurality of optical shutter elements, during formation of an image according to the accumulation of open periods detected for a respective optical shutter element;
• and
• controlling an open period of each respective one of said plurality of optical shutter elements according to (a) said controlled voltage and (b) a tone number of each pixel to be exposed.

An imaging device for reproducing an image, said imaging device comprising:

• a plurality of imaging elements;
• a driver which is connected to said plurality of imaging elements, said driver being capable of driving said plurality of imaging elements based on tones of image data to represent the image;
• a detector which can detect a drive accumulation of each of said plurality of imaging elements;
• and
• a controller which can control said driver to drive said plurality of imaging elements during reproduction of the image based on both the drive accumulations and the tones of the image data.

An imaging device for reproducing an image, said imaging device comprising:

• a plurality of imaging elements;
• a driver which is connected to said plurality of imaging elements, said driver being for driving said plurality of imaging elements, based on inputted image data, to represent the image;
• a detector which detects a plurality of drive statuses of said plurality of imaging elements during a reproduction of the image by said plurality of imaging elements;
• and
• a controller which controls said driver according to the drive statuses detected by said detector, wherein said controller controls said driver according to the drive statuses detected by said detector when the imaging elements are being driven by said driver to reproduce the image.

An imaging device for reproducing an image, said imaging device comprising:

• a plurality of imaging elements;
• a driver which is connected to said plurality of imaging elements, said driver for driving said plurality of imaging elements based on image data to represent the image;
• a detector which detects a plurality of drive accumulations of said plurality of imaging elements;
• and
• a controller which controls said driver according to the drive accumulations detected by said detector when the said plurality of imaging elements are being driven by said driver based on the image data.

An imaging device for reproducing an image, said imaging device comprising:

• a plurality of imaging elements;
• a driver which is connected to said plurality of imaging elements, said driver being capable of driving said plurality of imaging elements based upon image data to reproduce the image;
• a detector which can detect a status of a specific one of said plurality of imaging elements during reproduction of the image;
• and
• a controller which can control said driver to control at least the specific one of said plurality of imaging elements during reproduction of the image, based upon the status detected by said detector, and which controls a remainder of said plurality of imaging elements irrespective of the status detected by said detector.

An exposure method of performing exposure for a plurality of pixels to form an image, comprising the steps of:

• providing a plurality of imaging elements;
• driving said plurality of imaging elements based on tones of image data to represent the image;
• detecting a drive accumulation of each of said plurality of imaging elements;
• and
• controlling said plurality of imaging elements during exposure of the image based on both the drive accumulations and the tones of the image data.