Imaging apparatus, imaging method, recording medium, and program

An imaging method for a portable imaging apparatus that captures moving image data, the imaging method comprising the steps of:

• performing, at the portable imaging apparatus, imaging at a first rate;
• dividing, at the portable imaging apparatus, captured imaging data of the first rate in units of frames into N channels of moving image data of a second rate that is a rate that is 1/N the first rate (where N is a positive integer greater than one);
• and
• concurrently processing the obtained N channels of moving image data using N parallel units by processing the N channels of moving image data, the processing of each of the N channels including color space conversion processing converting a color space of the moving image data.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a program for causing a computer to execute a process of capturing moving image data, the program causing the computer to execute a process comprising the steps of:

• controlling a portable imaging apparatus to perform imaging at a first rate;
• dividing, at the portable imaging apparatus, captured imaging data of the first rate in units of frames into N channels of moving image data of a second rate that is a rate that is 1/N the first rate (where N is a positive integer greater than one);
• and
• concurrently processing, at the portable imaging apparatus, the obtained N channels of moving image data using N parallel units by processing the N channels of moving image data, the processing of each of the N channels including color space conversion processing converting a color space of the moving image data.

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an imaging unit configured to obtain imaging data of a first rate;
• a data dividing unit configured to distribute the imaging data of the first rate, which is captured by the imaging unit, in units of frames and dividing the imaging data into N channels of moving image data of a second rate that is a rate that is 1/N the first rate (where N is a positive integer greater than one);
• and
• N image processing units each implemented by processing circuitry and configured to process in parallel the N channels of moving image data obtained by the data dividing unit,
• wherein the second rate is 24, 50, or 60 frames per second.

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an imaging unit configured obtain imaging data of a first rate;
• a data dividing unit configured to distribute the imaging data of the first rate, which is captured by the imaging unit, in units of frames and dividing the imaging data into N channels of moving image data of a second rate that is a rate that is 1/N the first rate (where N is a positive integer greater than one);
• and
• N image processing units each implemented by processing circuitry and configured to process in parallel the N channels of moving image data obtained by the data dividing unit,
• wherein the N channels are four channels.

An imaging apparatus comprising:

• an imaging unit configured to obtain imaging data of a first rate;
• a data dividing unit configured to distribute the imaging data of the first rate, which is captured by the imaging unit, in units of frames and dividing the imaging data into N channels of moving image data of a second rate that is a rate that is 1/N the first rate (where N is a positive integer greater than one);
• and
• N image processing units each implemented by processing circuitry and configured to process in parallel the N channels of moving image data obtained by the data dividing unit,
• wherein the first rate is 240 frames per second.