Patent ID: 6947082

Claim:
An image-taking apparatus, comprising: a solid-state image sensor for performing image-taking with a plurality of photo-electric converters arrayed in a two-dimensional array; a first read-out control unit which reads out from said photo-electric converters in a predetermined image-taking area, for performing reading out at a fixed subsampling ratio according to the size of the image-taking area as to a plurality of set image-taking areas, thereby outputting images of each of the set image-taking areas at the same image size; a second read-out control unit which reads out from said photo-electric converters in a predetermined image-taking area, for performing reading out at said fixed subsampling ratio as to a predetermined image-taking area of a size that is different from those of said plurality of set image-taking areas; and an image size conversion processing unit for converting the image size of an image obtained by said second read-out control unit to the same image size as an image obtained by said first read-out control unit.