Patent ID: 7719582

Claim:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising: a two-dimensional pixel array that includes a plurality of pixels, each of which has a color component; and a reading circuit that reads pixel signals generated in the individual pixels in the pixel array through vertical signal lines provided for respective single pixel columns and that outputs the pixel signals to an output unit through first and second horizontal signal lines, wherein, the reading circuit (i) outputs the pixel signals having the same color component to the same one of the first or the second horizontal signal lines, (ii) alternately reads odd pixels of odd or even rows in the plurality of pixels into the first horizontal signal line through odd columns and (iii) alternately reads even pixels of the odd or the even rows in the plurality of pixels to the second horizontal signal line through even columns such that each of the plurality of pixels along each of the vertical signal lines is alternately read into a different one of the first horizontal signal line and the second horizontal signal line.