Patent ID: 8390735
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pick-up apparatus to pick up a static image, comprising: a lens adapted to form an image of a subject; an image pick-up device adapted to pick up the image formed; a shutter unit adapted to open and close an aperture corresponding to an image pick-up area of said image pick-up device by means of a plurality of rotating shutter blades, the shutter blades forming a substantially rectangular aperture when the shutter blades initially shade said aperture; wherein the shutter blades pivot in mutually opposite directions substantially perpendicular to a long side of the aperture when the shutter blades initially form the substantially rectangular aperture, and edges of the shutter blades facing the aperture being substantially parallel to the long side when the substantially rectangular aperture is formed, wherein portions of the edges that cover a center area of the aperture start shading the aperture before portions of the edges that cover four corner areas of the aperture start shading the aperture.