Patent ID: 8451360

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix in a plurality of rows and columns, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element and a color filter; a plurality of buffers, that includes buffers which are each shared by a pair of pixels, of the plurality of pixels, respectively having color filters of first and second colors different from each other and being disposed in a same column; and a plurality of vertical output lines arranged such that a pair of the vertical output lines are arranged correspondingly to one of the columns of the pixels, wherein (i) signals are outputted from the pixels having the color filters of the first color from among the pairs of pixels in the same column through the buffers simultaneously to the pair of the vertical output lines, and thereafter (ii) signals are outputted from the pixels having the color filters of the second color from among the pairs of pixels in the same column through the buffers simultaneously to the pair of the vertical output lines.