Patent ID: 8817139
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup device comprising: an image capturing unit that includes a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix form and simultaneously outputting pixel signals of the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in a row or column direction in sequence while sequentially shifting the pixels that output the pixel signals in the row direction, and that simultaneously outputs image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the simultaneously output pixel signals in sequence from corresponding output terminals; an image processing unit to which the image capturing signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in the row or column direction of the pixels arrayed in the solid-state image pickup device are simultaneously input in sequence from corresponding input terminals, and which performs image processing on the input image capturing signals; and a signal transmitting unit that rearranges a sequence of the image capturing signals simultaneously input from the image capturing unit into a sequence of the image capturing signals to which the image processing unit corresponds, and that simultaneously outputs the rearranged image capturing signals as the image capturing signals output by the image capturing unit in sequence to the image processing unit, wherein the signal transmitting unit comprises a plurality of line memories that sequentially hold the plurality of image capturing signals simultaneously input from the image capturing unit and sequentially outputs the held image capturing signals, the solid-state image pickup device of the image capturing unit is a solid-state image pickup device having a Bayer array, the line memories hold the image capturing signals corresponding to at least one line of the pixels of the same color arrayed in the solid-state image pickup device, and the signal transmitting unit includes the line memories that hold the image capturing signals of the pixels of the same color corresponding to at least two lines for each color of the pixels.