Patent ID: 8564690

Claim:
A photographing apparatus, comprising: an image pickup device having an image pickup area that is divided into at least four sub-image pickup areas, the sub-image pickup areas comprising pixels that comprise CMOS photo sensors, the image pickup device configured to concurrently perform a rolling shutter method in each of the sub-image pickup areas, so as to simultaneously output image signals produced by the pixels of each of the sub-image pickup areas; and an image processor to process the image signals output from the image pickup device, wherein the at least four sub-image pickup areas are arranged such that each sub-image pick-up area comprises a plurality of rows of pixels and at least one pixel included in a first and a third numbered sub-image pickup area outputs an image signal from an uppermost line to a bottommost line adjacent to another of the at least four sub-image pickup areas, and from left to right within one line in sequence, and at least one pixel included in a second and a fourth numbered sub-image pickup area outputs an image signal from the bottommost line to the uppermost line adjacent to another of the at least four sub-image pickup areas, and from the left to the right within one line in sequence.