Patent ID: 8823789

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: first and second imaging units, each of which is configured to output, as pixel information, an electric signal after photoelectric conversion from a pixel arbitrarily set as a reading target among a plurality of pixels for imaging; a reading circuit configured to read the pixel information from the pixel set as the reading target in each of the first and second imaging units; a control unit configured to control the reading circuit to read the pixel information alternately from the first and second imaging units to set the pixel as the reading target in each of the first and second imaging units, and configured to control timing of exposure processes in the first and second imaging units and timing of reading processes of the pixel information for the first and second imaging units by the reading circuit, to be correlated with one another; a transmission cable configured to transmit the pixel information read from each of the first and second imaging units through a same transmission path; and an image processing unit that generates an image based on the pixel information transmitted by the transmission cable wherein the plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix pattern, and wherein the control unit controls the reading circuit to read the pixel information of horizontal lines alternately from the first and second imaging units at a specified interval of lines to set the pixel as the reading target in each of the first and second imaging units.