Patent ID: 8248520
Filing Date: 2012-08-21
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device in which photoelectric conversion elements accumulating signal charges obtained by photoelectrically converting subject light are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction; an imaging device control portion that supplies, in synchronization with a synchronizing signal inputted therein, the imaging device with a read command signal to make the accumulated signal charges be outputted; an operation input portion that accepts an input of a flash light emission command to make a flash to emit light; a control portion that sets a predetermined interval as long as or longer than a 2-frame period as an output interval of the read command signal in the imaging device control portion and sets output timing of a flash control signal to make the flash to emit light so that a period since a start till an end of light emission of the flash is included within a period since completion of reading of the signal charges by a first read command signal till an input of a following second read command signal; and a timing control portion that supplies the flash control signal to the flash and supplies a read control signal to make the read command signal be outputted to the imaging device control portion at the predetermined interval set by the control portion according to an input of the flash light emission command from the operation input portion and the output timing set in the control portion, wherein the accumulation and reading of the signal charges according to the supply timing of the synchronizing signal are performed until a next timing at which the output of the flash control signal is allowed.