Patent ID: 7223956

Claim:
An electronic imaging system for electronically capturing images that comprises an image sensor array having photodetectors arranged in the form of a plurality of pixel rows comprising plural pixels, said photodetector for each pixel being capable of integrating an electric charge to which photons impinging on the pixel is converted to provide a pixel signal, and a rolling electronic shutter for initiating charge integration by row at a predetermined timing and reading out the pixel signals by row at a predetermined timing after a lapse of a predetermined integration timing, said imaging system comprising: lighting means comprising an LED array for producing flashes so as to illuminate toward a subject in a scene to be electrically captured by said electronic imaging system; and lighting control means for initiating excitation of said LED array at a timing of the beginning of charge integration of said image sensor array and extinguishing said LED array at a timing a termination of said charge integration of said image sensor array.