Image capturing apparatus and image capturing method

Abstract

In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210 . Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed. In a reproducing state, raw data are read from the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to a display performance of the display section 112 and the raw data that have been read are processed are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and the camera signal processing circuit 203 and a reproduced image is displayed by the display section 112.

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         9 . An image capturing apparatus, comprising;
 record medium control means for recording captured data having a first screen rate obtained from a solid state image capturing device to a record medium and reading captured image data having a second screen rate which is lower than the first screen rate from the record medium;   conversation means for converting the captured image data having the first screen rate obtained from the solid state image capturing device into the captured image data having the second screen rate;   camera signal processing means for performing a camera signal process for the captured image data having the second screen rate obtained from the conversion means or the record medium control means; and   display processing means for generating an image signal to be displayed from an image signal obtained from the camera signal processing means.