Patent ID: 7421091

Claim:
An image-capturing apparatus comprising: an image-capturing unit having a plurality of pixels disposed two-dimensionally; an addition pattern generating unit configured to specify an addition pattern; an adding unit configured to generate an image by adding according to the addition pattern, outputs of selected pixels present around a given pixel at the image-capturing unit to an output of the given pixel, wherein the selected pixels are chosen according to the addition pattern; and an image processing unit configured to process the image resulting from addition executed by the adding unit according to a type of image processing; wherein: the addition pattern generating unit specifies different addition patterns corresponding to different types of image processing; and when the image processing unit switches from a first type of image processing to a second type of image processing; the addition pattern generating unit changes the specified addition pattern from an addition pattern corresponding to the first type of image processing to an addition pattern corresponding to the second type of image processing; and the adding unit switches from the addition pattern corresponding to the first type of image processing to the addition pattern corresponding to the second type of image processing when adding outputs of selected pixels.