Patent ID: 8139128

Claim:
An image capture device comprising: an image capture unit having an image capture element for capturing a subject, and adapted to output an image signal with pixel values output by the image capture element in a form associated with addresses of pixels included in the image capture element; a pixel address storage unit adapted to store a number n of addresses in the image capture element, where n is an integer equal to or more than two; a number m of comparators adapted to acquire the stored n addresses in multiple increments of m, and during each acquisition to repeatedly carry out a comparison process for comparison of the m addresses with the addresses of the image signal output by the image capture unit, for the image signal of at least one frame, where 1≦m<n; and an image signal storage unit adapted to save default values as values lying out of range of the pixel values output by the image capture element and as image data of at least one frame, wherein the default values are values in which the m comparators determine that addresses saved in the comparators match addresses of the image signal captured by the image capture element until acquisition of the n addresses has been completed.