Patent ID: 7773135

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state imaging device; and a correction section that corrects defective signals contained in image signals output from the solid-state imaging device, the number of defective signals differing in accordance with an imaging condition, the correction section changing a manner of correction in accordance with the imaging condition wherein the imaging condition is an imaging sensitivity of the imaging apparatus, the solid-state imaging device comprises: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements generating charges; a plurality of vertical transfer sections that read out the charges from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and transfers the charges in a vertical direction; and a horizontal transfer section that transfers the charges, which are transferred through the plurality of vertical transfer sections, in a horizontal direction orthogonal to the vertical direction, the defective signals occur based on a potential failure in one of the plurality of vertical transfer sections, the potential failure corresponds to a first defective pixel, the defective signals correspond to the first defective pixel and second defective pixels, the first defective pixel and the second defective pixels are arranged successively in the same vertical transfer section, the imaging apparatus further comprises a storage section that stores, with respect to every imaging sensitivity lower than a reference value, positional information of the defective signals that occur upon imaging under an imaging sensitivity lower than the reference value, and wherein when imaging is performed under an imaging sensitivity of the reference value or more, the correction unit corrects (i) a common image signal specified by the positional information commonly corresponding to the imaging sensitivities lower than the reference value and (ii) a first image signal that: corresponds to a charge read out to the same vertical transfer section to which a charge forming the common image signal is read out; and is output after the common image signal, based on other image signals around the common image signal and the first image signal, and when imaging is performed under the imaging sensitivity lower than the reference value, the correction unit corrects a second image signal specified by the positional information corresponding to the image sensitivity, based on another image signal around the second image signal.