Patent ID: 8441559

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section that has a plurality of photoelectric transducers arranged in matrix, and a plurality of vertical transfer registers each of which is disposed adjacently to each row of photoelectric transducers for transferring signal charge from the photoelectric transducers, the imaging section outputting moving pictures by alternately repeating an image data output operation of outputting image data by driving the vertical transfer registers with no signal charge read out from the photoelectric transducers to vertical transfer registers, and a dummy signal output operation of outputting dummy signals by driving the vertical transfer registers with the signal charge read out from the photoelectric transducers to the vertical transfer registers, a correction signal generating section that generates a correction signal on the basis of a dummy signal detected by a dummy signal output operation of the imaging section, a storage section that stores the generated correction signal, and a subtractor that subtracting the correction signal from the image data output by the image data output operation.