Patent ID: 8537270

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging element configured to produce image data of a subject by opto-electrical conversion; a shutter mechanism switchable between an open state and a closed state, in the open state light is incident on the imaging element, and in the closed state light that would have been incident on the imaging element is blocked; an actuator configured to produce and store a driving force to drive the shutter mechanism; a position detector configured to detect a first state of the shutter mechanism that exists between when the actuator begins storing the driving force to drive the shutter mechanism and when the shutter mechanism switches from the closed state; and a drive controller configured to direct the actuator to begin storing the driving force to drive the shutter mechanism while the image data is being read from the imaging element, the drive controller being further configured to control the actuator so as to delay the time when the shutter mechanism is switched from the closed state if the position detector detects that the shutter mechanism is in the first state prior to completion of the image data being read from the imaging element.