Patent ID: 7852374
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-pickup device including an image-pickup element converting an optical image of a subject into an electrical signal, the image-pickup device comprising: detection means which detects brightness of the subject; first determination means determining an exposure-time period on the basis of the detected brightness; second determination means determining a divided-time period used for dividing the exposure-time period into a plurality of exposures; image-pickup-timing-control means which divides the exposure-time period by the divided-time period, exposes the image-pickup element for the divided-time period for each exposure except for one of the exposures which is extended in time to include a portion of the exposure-time period resulting from a remainder from the division of the exposure-time period by the divided-time period, and generates a plurality of time-division-image data items from the exposures; and combining means which generates still-image data by combining the generated time-division-image data items with each other.