Patent ID: 8823854
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device comprising: an optical imaging system; a solid-state image sensor which converts an optical image of a subject formed by the optical imaging system into an electric image signal; an exposure controller which starts an exposure in response to an instruction to start shooting; an image reader which sequentially reads, with a first time interval, image signals from the solid-state image sensor while the exposure controller continues the exposure, the first time interval being an interval with which an exposure amount rises by a certain amount; an image processor which sequentially processes the image signals read by the image reader; a display unit which displays a plurality of image data output from the image processor, each image data of the plurality of image data being associated with an image signal of the image signals and having a different exposure amount; and an image display processor which allows the display unit to update image display by sequentially displaying each image data of the plurality of image data processed by the image processor having the different exposure amount, with a second predetermined time interval that is a constant interval for each image data of the plurality of image data and that is different from the first time interval, and sequentially displaying, at a time when a display update time is equal to an exposure time and at times thereafter, image data with a same exposure amount.