An image pickup apparatus includes: a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of vertical transfer paths disposed in respective vertical lines of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and configured to vertically transfer charges, a single horizontal transfer path configured to horizontally transfer the charges transferred from each of the vertical transfer paths, and two charge/voltage converters provided in both ends of ...

A digital camera includes an imaging device driven by at least two kinds of drive modes, an image display device having a number of pixels less than a number of pixels of the imaging device, and an enlarging display setting device that enlarges a part of an area of a whole image obtained by the imaging device at a desired enlargement ratio and to display an enlarged image on the image display device. One of the at least two kinds of drive modes for driving the imaging device is selected such tha...

A digital still camera includes an image pickup device for photographing a subject, and an image processor adapted to drive and control the image pickup device, to process photographic signals outputted from the image pickup device and to record the processed images in a recorder. The image processor includes digitally zooming unit for selected a part of a photographic image plane photographed by the image pickup device and digitally zooming said part of the image. The image pickup device posses...

A stationary reflecting mirror (reflecting umbrella 2) is provided for reflecting light, emitted from a xenon discharge tube (3), to the side of an object to be photographed. An upper reflector plate (5) is provided above and in front of the stationary reflecting umbrella (2) and a lower reflector plate (6) is provided below and in front of the stationary reflecting umbrella (2). The upper and lower deflector plates (5, 6) are constructed so as to be pivoted in interlock with a change in the foc...

An OB level difference is calculated from the luminance signal levels of at least two frames which are exposed for proper exposure time and for exposure time different from the proper exposure time, and the OB level difference is corrected in an input step of a signal processing circuit. Calculation of the OB level difference is performed regularly from immediately after power on of the equipment, the OB level difference obtained in each frame is multiplied, and a value obtained by dividing the ...

A photographing device and method of dividing data of electric charges stored in all pixels corresponding to an image focused on an photographing device having a color filter for resolving color into M(.gtoreq.3) fields, transferring the divided data in sequence until data of m(<M) fields of the M fields are transferred, the transferred data of the m fields including all types of color signals and pixels necessary to prepare a color image and preparing a color image using the transferred data...

An imaging apparatus including a device for discharging charge or F/E-IC for discharging charge accumulated in an imaging device or CCD and for canceling exposure in a discharging term of the charge. The apparatus also includes a light shielding device or mechanical shutter unit for a mechanical shutter, which shields light by the mechanical shutter, and a control device or CPU block for controlling the discharging term of the discharging device and the light shielding timing of the mechanical s...

In a range finder, a capacitor for light emission is charged by turning off first and second switching elements and turning on third and fourth switching elements before light is emitted from a light emitting diode. A sum of a charging voltage of the capacitor for light emission and the voltage of a direct current power source is applied to the light emitting diode by turning on the first and second switching elements and turning off the third and fourth switching elements when light is emitted ...