Patent ID: 7218348

Claim:
A solid-state electronic imaging device comprising: a lot of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in the column direction and the row direction; a plurality of vertical transfer paths for transferring signal charges respectively accumulated in said photoelectric conversion elements in the vertical direction; one or more transfer gates for respectively shifting the signal charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion elements to said vertical transfer paths upon receipt of transfer gate pulses; a horizontal transfer path for horizontally transferring the signal charges transferred from the vertical transfer paths; color filters respectively formed on the photoelectric conversion elements and arranged such that the order of color signal components respectively represented by the signal charges substantially corresponding to one row which are inputted to the horizontal transfer path in reading out all pixels is a repetition of a red signal component, a green signal component, a blue signal component, and a green signal component, and the respective timings at which the red signal component and the blue signal component are outputted in odd rows are reverse to those in even rows; and a readout control that applies the transfer gate pulses to said transfer gates such that the order of color signal components respectively represented by the signal charges substantially corresponding to one row which are inputted to the horizontal transfer path is a repetition of a red signal component, a green signal component, a blue signal component, and a green signal component in every other row, and the respective timings at which the red signal component and the blue signal component are outputted in odd rows are reverse to those in even rows; and wherein said horizontal transfer path said horizontal transfer path is provided with a plurality of horizontal transfer electrodes; said solid-state electronic imaging device further comprising a mix control that applies horizontal transfer pulses to plural horizontal transfer electrodes of said horizontal transfer electrodes and changes the horizontal transfer electrodes to which said horizontal transfer pulses are applied in order to control mixing of the signal charges and an amount of the mixed signal charges.