Patent ID: 8023018
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pixel array having an oblique pixel pattern in which pixels are obliquely disposed; row selection unit that separately selects an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row of the oblique pixel pattern, wherein, each pixel has one of at least three color patterns of color filters, the pixel array has odd-numbered and even-numbered rows of pixels, the pixels in one of the odd-numbered or the even-numbered rows comprises only one of the color patterns, and the row selection unit simultaneously selects an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row which are not adjacent to each other for a plurality of times during one horizontal blanking period, and repeatedly adding the x pixels in the horizontal direction and the y pixels in the vertical direction while shifting the area having the adjacent n pixels in the horizontal direction and the adjacent n pixels in the vertical direction by m pixels in the vertical or horizontal direction, where m is an odd number of three or greater, a spatial positional relationship between the area having the adjacent n pixels in the horizontal direction and the adjacent n pixels in the vertical direction of odd-numbered rows and the area having the adjacent n pixels in the horizontal direction and the adjacent n pixels in the vertical direction of even-numbered rows being such that they are displaced from each other by m pixels in an oblique direction in the oblique pixel pattern.