Patent ID: 9288397
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging device comprising: a solid-state imaging device which has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two dimensional matrix form, the solid-state imaging device outputting pixel signals corresponding to object light incident on the plurality of pixels in at least two operating modes; a first conversion section which performs a first conversion process of converting a size of a predetermined first pixel area to a predetermined size with respect to first pixel signals, which are output from first pixels arranged in the first pixel area, within an area of all the plurality of pixels arranged in the solid-state imaging device to output first image data; a second conversion section which performs a second conversion process of converting a size of a second pixel area to a predetermined size with respect to second pixel signals output from second pixels arranged in the second pixel area, which is smaller than the first pixel area, within the area of all the plurality of pixels arranged in the solid-state imaging device to output second image data; an operating mode change unit which changes an operating mode of the solid-state imaging device in response to the size of the second pixel area; and a moving image data generating unit which performs a compression process on the first image data to generate first moving image data and performs the compression process on the second image data to generate second moving image data, wherein, when the first moving image data and the second moving image data are recorded in a memory at a same time, the operating mode is changed, and when only one of the first moving image data and the second moving image data is recorded in the memory, the operating mode is unchanged.