Patent ID: 8120690

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a plurality of photosensors included in one image sensor and two-dimensionally arranged on a light-receiving surface, for generating photo signals in accordance with an amount of received light; and a readout section reading out the generated photo signals, wherein: the readout section includes a plurality of vertical CCDs provided between arrays of the plurality of photosensors in a vertical direction on the light-receiving surface, for vertically transporting photo signals output from the photosensors; the plurality of vertical CCDs have two transport electrodes for each of the photosensors, and every two pairs of the transport electrodes for the photosensors have electrically crosswise connection to each other, the photosensors being adjacent to each other in a horizontal direction, and an order of the transport electrodes of each photosensor of the photosensors in an even number array is reverse to an order of the transport electrodes of each immediately horizontally adjacent photosensor of the photosensors in an odd number array; said readout section selectively has a grid imaging mode in which the generated photo signals on the light-receiving surface are sampled in a grid pattern for readout, and a diagonal grid imaging mode in which the generated photo signals on the light-receiving surface are sampled in a diagonal grid pattern for readout; and a direction of a grid pattern of sampling points in the grid imaging mode and a direction of a grid pattern of sampling points in the diagonal grid imaging mode are different from each other.