Patent ID: 8830384

Claim:
An imaging device, comprising: a solid-state imaging element including a plurality of pixels which is two-dimensionally arranged, wherein the solid-state imaging element includes a pixel group in which a red pixel that detects red light, a green pixel that detects green light, and a blue pixel that detects blue light are arranged in a Bayer pattern, in the pixel group arranged in the Bayer pattern, two types of pixel rows, that is, a GR pixel row in which the green pixel and the red pixel are alternately arranged in parallel in a row direction and a BG pixel row in which the blue pixel and the green pixel are alternately arranged in parallel in the row direction are alternately arranged in parallel in a column direction which is perpendicular to the row direction, the GR pixel rows or the BG pixel rows which are included in the pixel group arranged in the Bayer pattern include a plurality of phase difference pixel rows which includes phase difference pixels for detecting a phase difference, the phase difference pixel rows are arranged at an interval of (2 n+1 −1) (n is a natural number) in the pixel group arranged in the Beyer pattern, a control unit is provided to perform first control or second control on the same type of plural pixel rows as the phase difference pixel rows which are arranged in parallel in the column direction at regular intervals, pixel rows on which the first control is performed and pixel rows on which the second control is performed are alternately arranged in parallel in the column direction, in the first control, a signal is not read out from each pixel of the pixel rows to be controlled but a signal is read out from each pixel of two pixel rows which are adjacent to the pixel row to be controlled, in the second control, a signal is read out from each pixel of the pixel row to be controlled, the same type of plural pixel rows which are arranged in parallel in the column direction at the regular intervals include all phase difference pixel rows included in the solid-state imaging element and at least a pixel row which is in a middle between the phase difference pixel rows which are adjacent in the column direction, and the control unit performs the first control at least on the phase difference pixel rows.