Patent ID: 8259184
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus that includes a CMOS imaging device having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, and performs shake correction with respect to the imaging device, the imaging apparatus comprising: a shake detection unit configured to detect an amount of shake applied to the imaging device; a correction drive unit configured to perform a shake correction drive of the imaging device so as to perform the shake correction; a mechanical focal plane shutter arranged immediately in front of the imaging device and configured to perform an optical-path opening operation and an optical-path blocking operation for opening and blocking an optical path of light guided to the imaging device; a timing signal generating unit configured to supply a predetermined reset signal to each of the pixels for each predetermined pixel line of the imaging device so as to start exposure on the imaging device; and a control unit configured to control exposure of the imaging device, wherein, at the time of shooting, the control unit is configured to determine whether shake correction of the imaging device is being performed, to execute an electronic shutter control for starting exposure on the imaging device by the reset signal supplied to each of the pixels from the timing signal generating unit, when it is determined that shake correction of the imaging device by the correction drive unit is being performed, and to execute a mechanical shutter control for starting exposure on the imaging device by the optical-path opening operation by the mechanical focal plane shutter, when it is determined that shake correction of the imaging device by the correction drive unit is not being performed.