Patent ID: 9363440
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging device comprising: an imaging unit which includes a solid-state imaging device, which outputs a pixel signal corresponding to incident subject light at a predetermined timing of a first synchronization signal, and the imaging unit being configured to output captured image data corresponding to the pixel signal output by the solid-state imaging device; a plurality of image processing units configured to generate any one of first image data, which is generated by first image processing on the captured image data output from the imaging unit, and second image data, which is generated by second image processing on the captured image data; a display processing unit configured to output the second image data to a display device, which displays an image corresponding to image data input at a predetermined timing of a second synchronization signal, and to cause an image corresponding to the second image data to be displayed; and a control unit configured to change a setting of a phase difference between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal, and to switch between the first image processing and the second image processing to be executed by each of the plurality of image processing units, wherein when a predetermined image processing unit among the plurality of image processing units generates the first image data and an image processing unit different from the predetermined image processing unit generates the second image data, the control unit sets the phase difference between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal to a first phase difference, and when the phase difference between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal is set to a second phase difference which is shorter than the first phase difference, the control unit switches the first image processing and the second image processing to be executed by each of the plurality of image processing units so that some image processing units among the plurality of image processing units share and execute image processing of any one of the first image processing and the second image processing on the same captured image data in parallel.