Patent ID: 7336308

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: solid state imaging elements which receive light in accordance with a subject image, and accumulate charge in accordance with the received light, the solid state imaging elements being divided into two regions, one region being covered by color-separation filters transmitting a green-color light and another region being covered by color-separation filters transmitting one of a red-color and a blue-color light; an electronic shutter; a shutter pulse output section which, after the electronic shutter resets charges in all of the solid state imaging elements at the same time, outputs a first shutter pulse and a second shutter pulse at mutually different times; an imaging control section which controls such that accumulated charges of solid state imaging elements corresponding to the green-color light are read out on the basis of edge timing of the first shutter pulse and accumulated charges of solid state imaging elements corresponding to the one of the red-color and the blue-color light are read out on the basis of edge timing of the second shutter pulse; and a compensation section which performs gain compensation on the basis of a value of a ratio between charge accumulation durations of the region covered by color-separation filters transmitting a green-color light and the region covered by color-separation filters transmitting one of a red-color and a blue-color light, such that gains for the respective regions are mutually equal.