Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. Ina reproducing mode, displayposture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus includes a display control unit which controls an image display unit to display an image sensed by an image input unit. The image sensing apparatus also includes a signal strength detection unit which detects, from a sensed image, a luminance area formed from pixels satisfying a predetermined luminance condition, and a special area detection unit which detects, from a sensed image, an object area having a predetermined feature. The display control unit controls the image display unit to display an assist image representing the luminance area, so as to be superimposed on a sensed image. The display control unit changes the assist image display method between a case in which the luminance area and object area overlap each other and a case in which they do not overlap each other.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject, a finder optical system configured to enable a photographer to optically observe the subject, and an image display unit disposed in the finder optical system and configured to display an image of the subject captured by the image sensor and to enable the photographer to observe an electronic image of the subject when the photographer looks in the finder optical system. The image display unit is configured to display an image having been subjected to image processing performed on the electronic image considering a distortion caused by the finder optical system.

Abstract: An image capture device includes an image capture unit, a signal processing circuit a control unit, and a display. The image capture unit captures image information of the object and forms an imaging plane. The signal processing circuit receives analog image signals and converts them to digital image signals. The control unit locates a target sector, frames a square area within the sector, defines a central point of the square area, forms reference points, calculates a distance from the central point to each of the reference points, duplicates the square area to locate the central point at each of the reference points, and calculates an actual movement distance required for the image capturing device to relocate to the reference points according to a relationship of the distance. The display displays a layout of the reference images and the information.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. In a reproducing mode, display posture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.

Abstract: A digital photo frame with photographing function includes a digital frame, a lens module, a bracket, and a copy stand. The digital frame may further include a display module, a frame, a memory module, a control module, an input module, a power supply module, and a sense module. The display module is framed within the frame, and the lens module is disposed at a predetermined location on the frame. A paper photo can be disposed on the copy stand that is pivotally connected to the bracket. The input module can input a control signal to operate and control the lens module to copy photograph the paper photo into a digital photo and store the digital photo in the memory module and further display the digital photo on the display module.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. In a reproducing mode, display posture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus, includes a viewfinder optical system for guiding an observation light beam to a viewfinder window, the observation light beam being output from an imaging optical system and then reflected from a main reflective surface, an imaging element for generating an image signal in response to the reception of the observation light beam, an exposure control unit for performing exposure control of the imaging element in response to the image signal from the imaging element, and a light sensing detector, arranged in the vicinity of the imaging element, for measuring light. The exposure control unit determines an exposure control value in the exposure control in response to a light measurement value provided by the light sensing detector if a predetermined condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A viewfinder includes a main body detachably attached to a camera body, a display unit on which an image captured at the camera body is displayed, and an eyepiece unit detachably attached to the display unit. The eyepiece unit magnifies the image. The display unit includes a support connected to the main body in a rotatable manner, a display panel having a display surface on which the image is displayed, and a connecting mechanism that connects the display panel to the support in a rotatable manner. The support and the display panel can be set to a first folded state in which a rear surface of the display panel that is opposite to the display surface is placed on the support, a second folded state in which the display surface is placed on the support, and an unfolded state in which the display panel is raised from the support.

Abstract: A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, a body microprocessor 12, an aperture setting component 29, and an image display controller 15. The body microprocessor 12 allows a target aperture value and a reference aperture value to be set as set conditions and determines the reference aperture value on the basis of the target aperture value. The aperture setting component 29 adjusts a photography condition on the basis of the set conditions. The image display controller 15 displays part of a reference image a1 acquired by the imaging component 45 at the reference aperture value as a reference display image A1 in a first display region R131 and displays part of a target image b1 acquired by the imaging component 45 at the target aperture value a1 as a target display image B1 in a second display region R132.

Abstract: A digital camera comprises a CCD for subjecting subject light flux incident from a photographing lens to photoelectric conversion and outputting subject image signals, a movable mirror section, arranged in the imaging light path of the CCD, for reflecting some of the subject light flux and transmitting the remainder, a range finder/photosensor for receiving subject light flux reflected by the movable mirror member and carrying out ranging integration, and an optical system drive mechanism for carrying out focal point adjustment of the photographing lens based on output of the range finder/photosensor. In a sequential shooting mode for sequentially acquiring images using the CCD, during the imaging operation by the CCD ranging integration by the range finder/photosensor 217 is carried out using subject light flux that has been reflected by the movable mirror member.

Abstract: An eyepiece lens system for an electronic viewfinder, usable to be disposed on an optical axis between a reflective LCD of the viewfinder and a last optical surface of the viewfinder, the eyepiece lens system comprising: a first lens having a positive refractive index; a second lens having a negative refractive index; and a third lens having a positive refractive index, wherein the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are disposed in this order from a side of the LCD to a side of the last optical surface, satisfying the conditions: 18 mm<f1<20 mm, ?18 mm<f2<?16 mm, 18 mm<f3<20 mm, 19 mm<f<21 mm, and 0?HH?/f<+0.13 where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, f3 is a focal length of the third lens, f is a combined focal length of the first to the third lenses, and HH? is distance in an optical axis direction between a rear principal point H and a front principal point H?.

Abstract: A remote viewfinder display device using an image capturing device including a sensor positioned at an existing camera's viewfinder in communication with a remote display device which shows the viewfinder image at an alternative location to allow a photographer to frame the photograph in the viewfinder when the viewfinder is in an inaccessible or inconvenient position. The display can also provide a larger image for easier viewing. The remote viewfinder display device eliminates the constraints of a near eye view finder and provides for the ability to frame pictures with the alternatively positioned viewable screen or display independent of the existing camera's limited viewfinder position.

Abstract: An optical finder unit includes: light guide means for guiding an optical image of a subject to a finder window through an internal space formed in the optical finder unit; and a display unit capable of displaying information on the finder window through the internal space when the display unit is in a set state in which the display unit is set in a predetermined position, wherein the display unit in the set state blocks an opening communicating with the internal space, and the display unit can transit from the set state to a non-set state in which the display unit is not set in the predetermined position but unblocks the internal space.

Abstract: A split mechanism for a coaxial photographing device, especially a split mechanism between a photographing unit and a light projection unit of a photographing device used for a full-time surveillance to facilitate an image adjustment or maintenance, uses primarily the photographing unit as a base of support, with the removable light projection unit being assembled coaxially at an image taking end. After the light projection unit is disassembled and changes a position, it can be linked at a constant direction temporarily and can keep operating by using a linking device which is split linearly, such that a calibration light wave needed for adjusting the images can be provided, and the light projection unit can be easily aligned with an axis to be assembled at position upon assembling.

Abstract: A camera includes a first image pickup section that photographs a recording-purpose image, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a mounting section, a display processing section, a displaying section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical path of the first image pickup section. The second image pickup section photographs a view confirming image from an optical path different from that of the first image pickup section. The mounting section acquires focal-length information of an interchangeable lens. The display processing section executes display processing that superimposes a frame indicating a range of a field angle of the first image pickup section, onto the view confirming image. The displaying section provides the eyepiece section with the view confirming image having been processed with the display processing.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus 100 includes a memory 52 that stores information on an object distance obtained from an interchangeable lens 220 mounted on the image pickup apparatus and a memory controller 50 that retains the information on the object distance in the memory also after the interchangeable lens is removed from the image pickup apparatus. The image pickup apparatus of a changing-lenses type in which an object in-focus at a same distance can be obtained in a short time when lenses are changed is provided.

Abstract: An image processor includes a zoom lens for performing optical zooming by moving in a first range, an imaging unit for converting an object image obtained via a zoom lens into an image signal, and an electronic zooming unit for performing an electronic zooming operation on the image signal. The electronic zooming unit performs the electronic zooming operation as a result of moving the zoom lens into a second range when the zoom lens is in the first range and outside the second range.

Abstract: A camera includes a first image pickup section, a viewfinder optical system, a second image pickup section, a displaying section, an operation section, and a controlling section. The viewfinder optical system has an eyepiece section that can observe an optical image of a subject with a light flux from a photographing optical path of the first image pickup section. The second image pickup section photographs a view confirming image from an optical path different from that of the first image pickup section. The displaying section provides the eyepiece section with the view confirming image. The operation section accepts from a user a displaying operation to ask for displaying of the view confirming image. The controlling section switches between a first state to provide the eyepiece section with the optical image and a second state to provide the eyepiece section with the view confirming image.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a photographing lens having a aperture mechanism, an imaging section, including an image sensor for capturing a subject image via the photographing lens, a display section capable of displaying image information, an aperture drive section for driving the aperture mechanism to a specified position in response to manual operation of a preview instruction member, and a control section for causing execution of an exposure operation for a specified period in the imaging section, and causing display of a moving image on the display section based on image data acquired by the exposure operation. The control section stops the moving image display during drive of the aperture mechanism by the aperture drive mechanism, to thereby prevent unnatural variation in brightness of an image in live view display when a preview operation is carried out.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus to which a detachable lens unit (102) is attached, is provided with an image sensor (106) that converts light beams entering through the attached lens unit into electrical signals, and a display unit (107), including an electronic viewfinder mode to continuously display on the display unit images based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor. The image sensing apparatus has a control unit (135) that causes an aperture unit (104) included in the attached lens unit to stop down, when there is an instruction to display on the display unit an image other than the image based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor while in the electronic viewfinder mode.

Abstract: A virtual space image including a feature point is generated by executing software which generates a virtual space image on the basis of a viewpoint and receives a variation upon changing the position and orientation of the viewpoint. The position and orientation of the viewpoint are obtained by using the generated virtual space image. The position and orientation of the viewpoint are acquired. A variation is obtained on the basis of the position and orientation acquired in step S204 and those obtained in step S203. The variation is input to the software. The software updates the position and orientation of the viewpoint on the basis of the variation and outputs a virtual space image generated on the basis of a viewpoint having the updated position and orientation.

Abstract: A digital camera capable of readily recognizing the printing-specifying information that has been set. Printing-specifying information is set for digital image data acquired by photographing. When an image for which printing-specifying information has been set is displayed on a monitor provided in the digital camera, the image is displayed along with the set printing-specifying information.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus to which a detachable lens unit (102) is attached, is provided with an image sensor (106) that converts light beams entering through the attached lens unit into electrical signals, and a display unit (107), including an electronic viewfinder mode to continuously display on the display unit images based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor. The image sensing apparatus has a control unit (135) that causes an aperture unit (104) included in the attached lens unit to stop down, when there is an instruction to display on the display unit an image other than the image based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor while in the electronic viewfinder mode.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including a display device configured to display a shot image includes an external monitor output unit configured to output a signal to an external monitor, a switching unit configured to switch a content of a display on the display device, and a control unit configured to, when a content of the display on the display device is switched to an image display by the switching unit, output a signal corresponding to the image display to the external monitor output unit, and when a content of the display on the display device is switched to an information display by the switching unit, output no signal corresponding to the information display to the external monitor output unit.

Abstract: A single-lens reflex camera has a first image pickup device as a main image pickup device, a second image pickup device for live-view observation, a reflection mirror which switches an optical path between an optical path directed toward the first image pickup device and an optical path directed toward the second image pickup device, and a control section. When the shooting operation is instructed with the second image pickup device driven and a live-view displayed, the control section starts driving the reflection mirror to retract the reflection mirror from the optical path, and stops the second image pickup device and starts driving the first image pickup device while the reflection mirror is driven in a retracting direction.

Abstract: An image processing method comprising a first step of displaying a moving image being captured on a display and a second step of displaying a still image captured in response to a still image capture instruction on the display simultaneously with the moving image being captured when receiving the still image capture instruction during display of the moving image on the display in the first step and an image processing apparatus using the same.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus is provided with an aperture unit (104), an image sensor (106) that converts light beams entering through a photographing lens (103) and the aperture unit into electrical signals, and a display unit (107), including an electronic viewfinder mode to continuously display on the display unit images based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor. The image sensing apparatus has a control unit (135) that causes the aperture unit to stop down, when there is an instruction to display on the display unit an image other than the image based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor while in the electronic viewfinder mode.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus selectively records an image taken by itself or from at least one other apparatus. A digital video camera selects between an image taken by a camera block and an image taken by at least one other camera and received by a wireless communication module. The selected image is recorded on a magnetic tape of a video cassette. The camera transmits an image it takes to at least one other camera by the communication module. Processed by a control portion, the image taken by the camera and the image(s) from the other camera(s) are composited to be concurrently presented on a LCD.

Abstract: A camera includes a display device capable of displaying on a single screen a plurality of images, each of which can be observed from one of a plurality of directions; a selection device that selects any one of a plurality of operating modes; and a display control device that displays at the display device the plurality of images each correlated to the operating mode selected via the selection device.

Abstract: An eyepiece lens system for an electronic viewfinder, usable to be disposed on an optical axis between a reflective LCD of the viewfinder and a last optical surface of the viewfinder, the eyepiece lens system comprising: a first lens having a positive refractive index; a second lens having a negative refractive index; and a third lens having a positive refractive index, wherein the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are disposed in this order from a side of the LCD to a side of the last optical surface, satisfying the conditions: 18 mm<f1<20 mm, ?18 mm<f2<?16 mm, 18 mm<f3<20 mm, 19 mm<f<21 mm, and 0?HH?/f<+0.13 where f1 is a focal length of the first lens, f2 is a focal length of the second lens, f3 is a focal length of the third lens, f is a combined focal length of the first to the third lenses, and HH? is distance in an optical axis direction between a rear principal point H and a front principal point H?.

Abstract: A digital camera is provided with a vertically long camera body having an approximately rectangular solid shape. An LCD panel provided in a rear surface of the camera body is arranged such that longitudinal directions of the display screen and the camera body correspond to each other. The digital camera is operated through a touch panel provided in a lower portion of the display screen. In a taking mode, an image is displayed in a small size on an upper portion of the display screen. In reproducing, the camera body is rotated sideways by 90 degree. In a reproducing mode, display posture of the image is also rotated by 90 degree, and the image is displayed in a large size on the entire display screen.

Abstract: An image capture apparatus has an electronic view finder assembly. The assembly has a casing including inner and outer casings; an accommodation spacing, an opening, a cover, an eye cup portion, a stopper, and a dust prevention cushion. The accommodation spacing accommodates the inner casing held in the same extension direction as the outer casing. The opening is provided in the outer casing for insertion of the inner casing into the accommodation spacing. The cover closes the opening. The eye cup portion is attached to a rearward end of the outer casing. A stopper stops forward movement of the inner casing accommodated in the accommodation spacing in the state of the opening closed by the cover. The dust prevention cushion is interposed in a compressed state between overall circumferential peripheries of respective rearwardly facing and forwardly facing wall faces of the inner and outer casings in the state where the forward movement of the inner casing is stopped by the stopper.

Abstract: A portable terminal device or cellular phone includes a target setting section, a display unit, a focused-state determination section, and a recognition section. The photography-target setting section sets normal photography mode for photographing an image, and OCR mode for photographing a character or bar code. The display unit displays a photographed image, and positioning of an image as a photography target. The focused-state determination section is activated, and determines a focused state of a character or bar code photographed in the OCR mode. The recognition section recognizes the photographed character or bar code, the result of which is displayed by the display unit. Press of a confirmation button initiates a process to communicate with a communications target corresponding to the recognized result. A linking section may link recognition results to form a continuous string.

Abstract: A camera with a display panel comprises a camera body and an LCD panel unit. The LCD panel unit is swingably attached to the camera body by a hinge portion. The LCD panel unit is provided with the display panel. A speaker portion is located on one surface (on the same side as an image display screen) of the LCD panel unit. A microphone portion is located on the other surface of the LCD panel unit, that is, a surface opposite from the image display screen. The LCD panel unit houses a circuit board including sound circuits. The circuit board is connected electrically with a speaker and a microphone through a connector portion.

Abstract: A digital photographing apparatus is provided including a lens unit, an imaging device, and a main mirror disposed between the lens unit and the imaging device, wherein the position of the main mirror can be changed so that the main mirror either reflects at least part of light which passed through the lens unit toward a first orientation or the main mirror is not positioned on a path of the light which passed through the lens unit such that the light can be incident to the imaging device. A prism unit, a viewfinder, and an image sensor for live view are also included in the apparatus. A method of controlling the digital photographing apparatus, and a storage medium having recorded thereon a computer program for executing the method are also provided.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor configured to capture an image of a subject, a finder optical system configured to enable a photographer to optically observe the subject, and an image display unit disposed in the finder optical system and configured to display an image of the subject captured by the image sensor and to enable the photographer to observe an electronic image of the subject when the photographer looks in the finder optical system. The image display unit is configured to display an image having been subjected to image processing performed on the electronic image considering a distortion caused by the finder optical system.

Abstract: A device may establish a distance of a device from a reference object. The device may also determine a difference or change in the distance, obtain a zoom value based on the difference or change, and zoom in or out on a view based on the zoom value.

Abstract: A camera with a display panel comprises a camera body and an LCD panel unit. The LCD panel unit is swingably attached to the camera body by a hinge portion. The LCD panel unit is provided with the display panel. A speaker portion is located on one surface (on the same side as an image display screen) of the LCD panel unit. A microphone portion is located on the other surface of the LCD panel unit, that is, a surface opposite from the image display screen. The LCD panel unit houses a circuit board including sound circuits. The circuit board is connected electrically with a speaker and a microphone through a connector portion.

Abstract: In an image sensing device in which a hinge mechanism is secured to the side face of the main body of the image sensing device and an image display unit for displaying a captured image is mounted by the hinge mechanism so as to be free to rotate, a light-emitting device for emitting light toward a subject is accommodated inside the hinge mechanism.

Abstract: A single-lens-reflex digital camera in which an optical image of an object that is to be photographed via a photographing lens is reflected by a main mirror to be formed on a focusing screen so that the optical image is viewed through a viewfinder while the main mirror is retracted from an optical path of the photographing lens to capture an image of the object by an image pickup device, the single-lens-reflex digital camera includes an electroluminescent display provided on the focusing screen, wherein the electroluminescent display displays at least the object image captured by the image pickup device. The single-lens-reflex digital camera is configured to allow the object image displayed by the electroluminescent display and the optical image formed on the focusing screen to be viewed through the viewfinder.

Abstract: A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, and an image display controller 15. The liquid crystal monitor 16 allows a plurality of images acquired by the imaging component 45 to be displayed. The image display controller 15 controls the display component to display an image A1, which is part of the image acquired by the imaging component 45, as a reference image A on the liquid crystal monitor 16, and to display part of the image acquired by the imaging component 45 at a different timing from that of the image A1 as a comparative image B on the liquid crystal monitor 16. The image display controller 15 controls the display component to display the image A1 as a reference image A in a state of being inverted around a symmetry axis 51a.

Abstract: A camera system 100 has an imaging optical system L, an imaging component 45, a liquid crystal monitor 16, a body microprocessor 12, an aperture setting component 29, and an image display controller 15. The body microprocessor 12 allows a target aperture value and a reference aperture value to be set as set conditions and determines the reference aperture value on the basis of the target aperture value. The aperture setting component 29 adjusts a photography condition on the basis of the set conditions. The image display controller 15 displays part of a reference image a1 acquired by the imaging component 45 at the reference aperture value as a reference display image A1 in a first display region R131 and displays part of a target image b1 acquired by the imaging component 45 at the target aperture value a1 as a target display image B1 in a second display region R132.

Abstract: A method (500) of providing a picture composition guide on a display device (407) of a camera (450) is disclosed. The method (500) operates by firstly detecting (502) settings of the camera (450). Image analysis (503) is then performed on an image being displayed on the display device (407), the image representing a photographic scene. Next, the presence and location of strong features are determined based on the result of the image analysis (503). One or more markers are selected (505) dependent upon the camera settings and the strong features. The one or more markers are then superimposed over the image on the display device (407).

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus is provided with an aperture unit (104), an image sensor (106) that converts light beams entering through a photographing lens (103) and the aperture unit into electrical signals, and a display unit (107), including an electronic viewfinder mode to continuously display on the display unit images based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor. The image sensing apparatus has a control unit (135) that causes the aperture unit to stop down, when there is an instruction to display on the display unit an image other than the image based on the electrical signals obtained by the image sensor while in the electronic viewfinder mode.

Abstract: A photographing device supporting a panoramic imaging includes an image capture section for photographing a subject and outputting image data representing the subject, a sensor module for computing and outputting an azimuth of a photographing direction toward the subject, an image processor for creating a panoramic image by combining a plurality of image data captured at the image capture section, an output section for displaying a message using a display, and a controller for controlling the output section to set a target azimuth corresponding to an azimuth at an image capture and to adjust a photographing direction to the target azimuth when one of the plurality of the image data is captured. Thus, after photographing the subject in various angles while precisely controlling the photographing direction, the panoramic image can be created by combining the captured images.

Abstract: A digital camera includes an imaging unit provided in a camera body to take an image electrically, an optical finder provided at an edge portion of the body, and a display apparatus provided in the body to display the taken image. The display apparatus includes a panel including a display area arranged nearer to a rear surface of the body than the imaging unit in the body, a projection projecting outwardly from a part of a periphery of the display area, a looking-out portion at a predetermined part of the projection, and a pixel drive unit for driving matrix pixels of the display area at the remaining part of the projection. In the body, the area of the panel corresponds to a window formed in the rear surface, the looking-out portion of the projection overlaps with the finder, and the drive unit is arranged in a side of the finder.

Abstract: A method and wireless terminal for zooming an image in a wireless terminal are provided, in which information of a selected image is analyzed, when a predetermined image is selected in an image edit mode; control is authorized to a second controller, if the selected image is a high resolution image; the selected image is displayed on a first screen and a zoom box used to select a partial image to be zoomed is displayed on a second screen, under the control of the second controller; a zoom function is performed while displaying the partial image selected by the zoom box on the first screen, if a zoom mode is selected; and a partial image selected by the moved zoom box is displayed on the first screen, when moving the zoom box.

Abstract: An image pickup apparatus includes an eyepiece portion and a touch panel, and controls execution of a predetermined action in a condition where a photographer contacts the touch panel and its contact position is in a predetermined area. The predetermined area is changed in accordance with a condition of whether or not an object is near the eyepiece portion.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a diaphragm control unit configured to control an aperture value of a diaphragm, and an electronic shutter control unit configured to control an operation of an electronic shutter for adjusting a charge accumulation time of the image sensor by adjusting a driving timing of the image sensor, wherein, if driving of the diaphragm overlaps a charge accumulation time when the aperture value is changed from a first aperture value to a second aperture value, the electronic shutter control unit controls a time of charge accumulation corresponding to the second aperture value in the charge accumulation time such that a brightness of an image signal output from the imaging unit when the first aperture value is set and a brightness of an image signal output from the imaging unit when the second aperture value is set become approximately equal to each other.