Patent ID: 7479993

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus for capturing an object using a solid-state imaging device, comprising: subtraction means for subtracting second image data, which is captured with a shutter closed under a same exposure condition as an ordinary capturing, immediately before or after thereof and digitalized, from first image data, which is captured by an ordinary capturing mode with the shutter opened and digitalized; adder means for adding an offset, for negative noise, to a signal value from said subtraction means; limiter means for limiting a signal level from said adder means; bright spot position detection means for detecting an occurrence position of a bright spot noise, which is a high level noise which produces a bright spot on a captured image, in said second image data; and noise compensation means for compensating for data of a pixel corresponding to the occurrence position of said bright spot noise detected by said bright spot position detection means, with respect to output data from said limiter means, wherein: said bright spot position detection means comprises detecting the occurrence position of said bright spot noise if a signal level of said pixel reaches a predetermined value.