Patent ID: 9686450
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H01L,H04N

Claim:
1. An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor having a plurality of pixels and being capable of outputting signals of pixels of an effective pixel area among the plurality of pixels as image signals and signals of pixels of a reference pixel area among the plurality of pixels as correction signals in which a plurality of pixel signals are combined; a processor which generates correction values based on the correction signals by combining the pixel signals of the reference pixel area so as to handle a method of combining the pixel signals of the effective pixel area in the image sensor, and a corrector which corrects the image signals using the correction values, wherein even in a case where the image signals are output with different methods of combining the pixel signals of the pixels of the effective pixel area, the image sensor outputs the correction signals without changing a method of combining the pixel signals of the reference pixel area.