Patent ID: 8189078
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: H04N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus, comprising: an image pickup device that images a photogenic subject; a drive part that drives the image pickup device in order to read out image signals from the image pickup device; a digital signal processing part in which image signals outputted from the image pickup device are inputted and processed; one image display part connected to the digital signal processing part and configured to display using one display format a processed image; another image display part connected to the digital signal processing part and configured to display using another display format the processed image and which requires more time for display processing than the time required for display processing by the one display format; and an image switch-over part for switching over an image display device between the one image display part and the another image display part; wherein the digital signal processing part includes an operation speed shift part for fastening the speed of operation of the drive part in correspondence to the switch-over of an image display device from the one image display part to the another image display part; and a smear detection part for detecting smears based on image data obtained from the image pickup device, wherein when smears are not detected based on the detection result of the smear detection part, the digital signal processing part maintains the speed of operation at the time an image is displayed in the another image display part to the speed of operation at the time an image is displayed in the one image display part.