Patent ID: 8502893

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that includes a CMOS-type image sensor and obtains an image by converting light from a subject into an electrical signal, the image including an available picture area formed by N effective scanning lines including an uppermost line located at an uppermost position of the available picture area and a lowermost line located at a lowermost position of the available picture area; and a determination unit that sets a predetermined region in a lower portion of the image obtained by the imaging unit as a flash detection monitoring region, calculates an evaluation value from the flash detection monitoring region, and determines that an influence of a flash is present within the image when the calculated evaluation value has changed by greater than or equal to a predetermined value, wherein the flash detection monitoring region is formed by a predetermined plural number of successive effective scanning lines that (i) are part of the N effective scanning lines and (ii) include the lowermost line of the N effective scanning lines, and wherein the predetermined plural number is equal to or less than one-fourth of N.