Patent ID: 9225908
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. The imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensor that has a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix form and outputs pixel signals according to subject light incident on each of the plurality of pixels in at least two or more drive modes; a first processing unit that performs, on the pixel signals output by the solid-state image sensor according to any one drive mode, an equal process to a first process performed when the solid-state image sensor outputs the pixel signals according to another drive mode; a pixel signal selection unit that selects any one of the pixel signals that are subject to the equal process to the first process performed by the first processing unit or the pixel signals that are subject to the first process performed by the solid-state image sensor according to the latter drive mode; and a second processing unit that performs a second process on the pixel signals selected by the pixel signal selection unit, wherein the first process is a process of reducing the pixel signals to be output by adding or thinning out each of the pixel signals output from each of the pixels that the solid-state image sensor has by a predetermined number for each of the pixel signals, and wherein the second process is a process of resizing the region of the pixels that are arranged in the solid-state image sensor expressed by the pixel signals that have undergone the first process to a region having predetermined sizes in the row direction and in the column direction.