Patent ID: 8227737

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an electronic shutter; a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels with different characteristics of spectral sensitivity are arranged in an array and which converts light transmitted through the pixel into an electric signal, said pixel array part comprising a plurality of color pixels and at least one clear pixel; and a first read channel and a second read channel, wherein, the plurality of color pixels comprises (i) a first color filter pixel having a peak of spectral sensitivity characteristics in red, (ii) a second color filter pixel having a peak in blue, and (iii) a third color filter pixel having a peak in green, at least a portion of the plurality of color filter pixels is arranged in an oblique pixel array system, the oblique pixel array system is generated by rotating a unit pixel at a predetermined angle about a column axis to produce an oblique pixel, the at least one clear pixel having a high transmittance is arranged in the oblique pixel array system at a given position of a given row and a given column with respect to the first color filter pixel, the second color filter pixel, and the third color filter pixel, the first read channel exclusive for clear pixels and the second read channel exclusive for color filter pixels are configured to separately and independently read the at least one clear pixel and the plurality color filter pixels, and the electronic shutter is separately driven for the at least one clear pixel and for the plurality of color filter pixels.