Patent ID: 8068138
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup optical system having an optical axis and configured to form a subject image; an image pickup element configured to pick up the subject image and output the picked-up subject image as an image; an image addition processor configured to correct positional displacement between a plurality of images output from the image pickup element each image having fixed pattern noise and only after the positional displacement therebetween is corrected so as to change a position of the fixed pattern noise therein to add the resulting images together such that the image addition processor corrects the respective positional displacement between a first image which was previously captured and a second image which is currently captured before adding the first image and the second image together, so that the fixed pattern noise appears at different positions in a resulting added image so as to reduce a level of the fixed pattern noise; and an operation unit.