Patent ID: 8934051
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising: an image pickup lens; a shutter capable of changing over a plurality of light paths from said image pickup lens individually between a light transmission state and a light blocking state; an image pickup element including a plurality of light receiving pixels for which exposure and signal reading out are carried out line-sequentially and adapted to acquire picked up image data based on transmission light beams of the light paths; and a control section adapted to control changeover between the light transmission state and the light blocking state of the light paths by said shutter; said control section controlling said shutter such that, in each picked up image frame, the changeover between the light transmission state and the light blocking state of the light paths is carried out after delay by a predetermined period after starting of exposure for the first line of said image pickup element, and wherein said control section can carry out changeover between a first mode in which, in each picked up image frame, said control section controls said shutter such that the changeover between the light transmission state and the light blocking state for each of the light paths is carried out after delay by the predetermined period after starting of exposure for the first line of said image pickup element and a second mode in which a plurality of viewpoint images are acquired alternately for every other frame as valid frames in response to a brightness of an image pickup object or to an external input signal.