Patent ID: 8077232

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a plurality of pixels arrayed in the horizontal and vertical directions, each of the plurality of pixels having a photoelectric converting unit and a pixel amplification unit outputting a signal based on an electrical charge accumulated in the photoelectric converting unit; a noise removing unit removing noise generated in the pixel; and a plurality of color filters arranged in a Bayer pattern, wherein the pixel array has a plurality of regions each comprising adjacent pixels of five rows by five columns, and a center pixel of one region comprising the pixels of five rows by five columns is adjacent to a center pixel of another region comprising the pixels of five rows by five columns with being two pixels spaced apart from the center pixel of the another region in directions of the rows and the columns, and wherein the imaging device has an addition mode in which signals from plural pixels in a first, third, and fifth rows and a first, third, and fifth columns in each of the regions comprising the pixels of five rows by five columns are added.