IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT AND IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE CONTROL METHOD

摘要

This invention is applicable to, for instance, a video camera, electronic still camera, monitoring device and the like, which record image pickup results by moving image. A charge accumulating time (TE) or a frame cycle of an image pickup means (3) or a processing time (TC) of a data compressing means (8) is varied corresponding to the processing time (TC) of the data compressing means (8).