Patent ID: 9544517
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An electric camera comprising: an image sensing device with a light receiving surface having an array of vertically and horizontally arranged pixels including N vertically arranged pixels, where N is an integer greater than or equal to three times an integer of M which is a number of effective scanning lines of a display screen of a television system; a driver configured to drive the image sensing device to vertically mix or cull signals accumulated in individual pixels, at intervals of K pixels, in order to produce a plurality of lines of output signals which correspond to the M effective scanning lines, where K is an integer less than or equal to a whole number portion of a quotient of N divided by M; a zoom operation unit configured to receive a request to continuously change a view angle of a moving image; and a signal processing unit configured to generate image signals of the moving image by using the output signals of the image sensing device, wherein the display screen displays the moving image, wherein, when the request to continuously change a magnification factor to magnify the moving image is received by the zoom operation unit, the driver: wherein the magnification factor of the first image is smaller than the magnification factor of the second image, and a value of K1 is larger than a value of K2, and wherein M, K1, and K2 are positive integers greater than 1.