Patent ID: 9716840
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup device; a readout unit configured to readout an image signal of one frame from said image pickup device for detecting a frequency and a characteristic point of a change in an amount of light of flicker before continuous shooting is performed using said image pickup device, and readout an image signal of one frame from said image pickup device for detecting only a characteristic point of the change in the amount of light of flicker whenever image pickup for obtaining a still image of one frame is performed during continuous shooting; a detection unit configured to be capable of detecting a frequency and a characteristic point of the change in the amount of light of flicker based on the image signal readout by said reading unit; a predicting unit configured to, based on the frequency of a change in the amount of light of flicker detected by said detection unit at first timing before the continuous shooting is performed and the characteristic point of a change in the amount of light of flicker detected by said detection unit at second timing later than the first timing during continuous shooting, predict a characteristic point of a change in the amount of light of flicker after the second timing; and a control unit configured to control timing with which said image pickup device is exposed to coincident with the characteristic point after the second timing predicted by said predicting unit.