Patent ID: 8502889

Claim:
A solid-state image capturing device comprising: an image capturing region including a plurality pixels in a two-dimensional array; a row scanning unit that performs row scanning to sequentially select a row from the two dimensional array; an A/D conversion unit that simultaneously converts analog pixel signals output from the plurality of pixels belonging to the selected row into pieces of digital pixel data; a row memory that stores pixel data of one row, to which the A/D conversion has been performed, therein; and a compression unit that sequentially performs compression coding to pixel data output from the row memory, wherein, when performing the compression coding to the pixel data, the compression unit refers to pixel data belonging to a respective row for which compression coding performed while not referring to pixel data belonging to a row different from the respective row the row memory includes: a first memory that stores pixel data corresponding to an even-numbered column; and a second memory that stores pixel data corresponding to an odd-numbered column, and the compression unit includes: a first compression unit that sequentially performs compression coding of the pixel data output from the first memory by referring to the pixel data stored in the first memory; and a second compression unit that sequentially performs compression coding of the pixel data output from the second memory by referring to the pixel data stored in the second memory.