IMAGING AND DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD

The object of the present invention is to provide an imaging and display apparatus and method for providing small and reasonable apparatus while the imaging frame rate of the imaging element can be high without decreasing the resolution of the display image. For this object, an imaging and display apparatus comprises an imaging element 12 for performing photo electric conversion on an optical image formed by an optical system 11, a display element 20 for displaying image information, a readout control section 14 for sequentially reading out the image information from the imaging element 12, and a image selection section 17 for selecting image information to be displayed on the display element 20 from the image information sequentially read out of the imaging element 12 by the readout control section 14. The readout control section 14 controls the readout of the imaging element 12 so that spatially different image information is included in the sequential readout period of the imaging element 12 corresponding to the sequential display frames of the display element 20, and the image selection section 17 selects spatially different image information which is read out of the imaging element 12 in sequential display frames.