Patent ID: 8605186

Claim:
A driving method of an imaging apparatus, wherein the imaging apparatus subjects signal electric charges of an (IT-CCD Interline Transfer Charge-Coupled Device) or a FIT-CCD (Frame Interline Transfer Charge-Coupled Device) for interlaced scanning to vertical pixel addition to be read out as image signals, the driving method comprising: fixing pairs of vertical pixels subjected to vertical pixel addition to odd and even fields to be read out as image signals of interlaced scanning from the IT-CCD or the FIT-CCD; reducing singular points in accordance with correlation of arrangement phases of scanning lines of image signals of the interlaced scanning and arrangement phases of scanning lines of image signals of second progressive scanning; subjecting image signals to scanning line conversion by additional average of scanning lines of several kinds of coefficients having vertical frequency characteristics approximating to one another to be converted into image signals of second progressive scanning; and outputting image signals of second progressive scanning.