Patent ID: RE42793

Claim:
An imaging apparatus which has a movable element related to imaging and an image sensing element, and has a function of sensing an image of an object with the image sensing element and reading as an image signal a signal generated by the image sensing element, comprising: a radiation generation device adapted to emit radiation; an image sensing element which converts the radiation to an electrical signal; a control unit arranged to stop movement of the element related to imaging , and , after stopping the movement a vibration of the element has become smaller than a predetermined level after stopping movement control for the element , starting to start reading of a signal generated by the image sensing element , and an imaging control device adapted to control said image sensing element to be in at least one of a state of sweeping out an electrical charge and a state of accumulating an electrical charge, wherein said imaging control device controls said image sensing element to bring said image sensing element into a second state in which the sweeping out operation is repeated with a second time interval after said image sensing element has been brought into a first state in which the sweeping out operation is repeated with a first time interval .