Patent ID: 7989745

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device, comprising: a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional pattern and each equipped with a photoelectric conversion unit that generates and accumulates a signal charge corresponding to a subject image formed with light entering from an optical system; a readout control unit that executes control under which signals are read out from the plurality of pixels; and vertical signal lines each disposed in correspondence to at least one column of columns along which the plurality of pixels are arrayed, to which output signals from the pixels in the corresponding columns are provided, wherein: the plurality of pixels include a plurality of imaging pixels that output imaging signals for forming image signals that represent the subject image and a plurality of focus detection pixels that output focus detection signals for detecting a focusing condition of the optical system through a split-pupil phase difference method; the readout control unit sequentially and cyclically executes operation in two or more read modes while a specific operation mode is set; the two or more read modes include a live view read mode in which imaging signals for live view display are read out, and a focus detection and automatic exposure read mode in which the focus detection signals and imaging signals to be used as photometry information for automatic exposure are read out; in the focus detection and automatic exposure read mode, signals are read out in a single frame from pixel rows including the focus detection pixels and pixel rows excluding the focus detection pixels; and at least either the signals from the pixel rows including the focus detection pixels or the signals from the pixel rows excluding the focus detection pixels are read out through a discriminative read executed along a columnar direction in which the columns extend.