Patent ID: 8269853

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: an image sensor equipped with a plurality of charge storage-type photoelectric conversion elements disposed along a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; a rolling shutter control unit that executes storage control so as to store electrical charges in a first element row and in a second element row with different timing for electrical charging, the first element row being made up with a plurality of the charge storage-type photoelectric conversion elements disposed along the first direction and the second element row being made up with a plurality of the charge storage-type photoelectric conversion elements disposed along the first direction at a different position along the second direction; a detection unit that detects light emission timing indicating a light emission cycle corresponding to each of a plurality of color components contained in light entering the image sensor; and a start instruction unit that engages the rolling shutter control unit to start the storage control based upon the light emission timing.