Patent ID: 8368777

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging element configured to output image signals; a transfer unit configured to serially transfer the image signals, by using a plurality of transfer channels; a storage unit configured to store the image signals serially transferred from the plurality of transfer channels; a signal processing unit configured to process the image signals stored in the storage unit; a write control unit configured to control writing of the image signals from the transfer unit to the storage unit, in synchronism with a first clock signal synchronous with the image signals serially transferred by the transfer unit; a read control unit configured to control reading of the image signals from the storage unit to the signal processing unit, in synchronism with a second clock signal for driving the signal processing unit; and a clock generation unit configured to generate the second clock signal having a frequency that accords with an amount of data constituted by the image signals transferred from the transfer unit to the storage unit, wherein the clock generation unit generates the second clock signal by performing a masking process on a third clock signal, using a prescribed pattern associated with the amount of data constituted by the image signals, and the second clock signal and the third clock signal are synchronous with each other.