Patent ID: 8830364

Claim:
A driving method of a solid-state imaging device in which an even-numbered pixel row is disposed with a deviation from an odd-numbered pixel row by ½ pixel pitch, both of a pixel line extending toward right-upwardly inclined direction and a pixel line extending toward left-upwardly inclined direction are composed of only pixels stacked with a green filter for every two lines, a pixel that constitutes one-side row of the odd-numbered pixel row or the even-numbered pixel row of the pixels disposed in the rest of check pattern positions on which the pixels stacked with the green filter is not disposed is a pixel stacked with a red filter and a pixel that constitutes the other-side row is a pixel stacked with a blue filter, the method comprising: driving the pixel stacked with the red filter and the pixel stacked with the blue filter which are presented on one line for every four lines of one-side pixel lines of the pixel line extending toward right-upwardly inclined direction and the pixel line extending toward left-upwardly inclined direction, and the pixel stacked with the green filter which is most adjacent to the pixel stacked with the red filter or the pixel stacked with the blue filter as a low-sensitivity pixel, and driving the rest of the pixels as a high-sensitivity pixel.