Imaging apparatus

Abstract

An imaging apparatus preprocesses an imaging signal from an imaging unit (103) through a preprocessing unit (104) which has a smoothing unit (204). The smoothing unit (204) performs a smoothing process within a horizontal scanning period of a predetermined amount of the imaging signal output from the imaging unit (103) and stores the predetermined amount of the imaging signal from the imaging unit (103) uniformly on time in a first storage unit (301), thus the imaging data corresponding to effective positions in the imaging signal output from the imaging unit is input to the bus interface (205) is not concentrated on any part of the horizontal scanning period.

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camera device technical field The present invention relates to an imaging device, and more particularly, to a technology for improving the efficiency of output processing of imaging signals in the imaging device. Background technique In recent years, the operating speed of an imaging element mounted on an imaging device has become faster. With the increase in the operating speed of the imaging element, it is possible to capture a plurality of images in a short time. With such an increase in the number of continuous shootings, the number of images that must be processed by the image processing unit in the subsequent stage of the imaging element also increases. The flow from imaging by the imaging element to image processing by the image processing unit will be briefly described. The imaging signal input from the imaging element is subjected to pre-processing such as digitization in the pre-processing section. The imaging data obtained by the pre-processing in the pre-pr...

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However, resulting in unnecessary headroom in the frequency band of the bus

As described above, if the transfer requests of the imaging data to the bus are concentrated in a part of the horizontal scanning period, the bus usage efficiency will decrease.

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