Patent ID: 8698907
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capture apparatus comprising: a solid-state imaging device which includes a plurality of pixels disposed in rows and columns, generates: first pixel mixture signals each obtained by mixing pixel signals for a first region including a predetermined number of the pixels; second pixel mixture signals each obtained by mixing pixel signals for a second region in the first region; and third pixel mixture signals each obtained by mixing pixel signals for a third region in the first region, and outputs, for each first region, one of the first pixel mixture signals, at least one of the second pixel mixture signals, and at least one of the third pixel mixture signals; a first image processing unit configured to generate a first image from the first pixel mixture signals; a second image processing unit configured to generate a second image from the second pixel mixture signals; a third image processing unit configured to generate a third image from the third pixel mixture signals; and a fourth image processing unit configured to generate a fourth image, which is a high resolution image, from at least two images selected from among the first image, the second image, and the third image, wherein the second regions are disposed in a column direction in the first region and each second region has, in a row direction, a same number of pixels as a number of pixels in the row direction in the first region, and the third regions are disposed in the row direction in the first region and each third region has, in the column direction, a same number of pixels as a number of pixels in the column direction in the first region.