Patent ID: 8743237

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a signal control section for receiving an input signal read-out from an imaging element in either of an interlace scheme or a progressive scheme, and for performing a different process on the input signal according to a read-out scheme to generate an output signal for a signal processing section; and the signal processing section for performing signal processing on the output signal from the signal control section and for generating an output image signal, wherein when the read-out scheme from the imaging element is either the interlace scheme or the progressive scheme, the signal control section performs a control of generating a signal which includes a same color information in either case of the interlace scheme and the progressive scheme to output the output signal to the signal processing section, wherein the signal processing section includes: a vertical frequency correction signal generating section which receives input signals in parallel from the signal control section, the signals being output from a plurality of adjacent horizontal lines which are output from the imaging element; a horizontal frequency correction signal generating section which receives an output signal of one horizontal line or an addition signal of adjacent horizontal lines from the signal control section, the output signal being output from the imaging element; and a color signal generating section which receives output signals of a plurality of adjacent horizontal lines in parallel from the signal control section, the output signals being output from the imaging element.