Patent ID: 8031246

Claim:
An image sensor that has a pixel array section in which pixels are arrayed in a two-dimensional manner in vertical and horizontal directions and that controls an exposure time of each pixel in a rolling shutter method, comprising: control means for determining an electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period, which is the number of rows where electronic shutters are simultaneously performed in one horizontal scanning period, by an operation based on an address addition amount (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , . . . , P N ) when a vertical address movement amount of the pixel array section for every one horizontal scanning period in an electronic shutter for regulating exposure, executed corresponding to electric charge reading in each pixel is expressed as repetition of the address addition amount (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , . . . , P N ), wherein, the control means determines the electronic shutter occurrence number within one horizontal scanning period on the basis of a maximum value Q of an absolute value of each of the address addition amounts P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , . . . , P N in the case of generating a thinned-out image in which the number of pixels in the vertical or horizontal direction is thinned out according to the address addition amount (P 1 , P 2 , P 3 , . . . , P N ).