Patent ID: 7948531

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section that has a plurality of photoelectric transducers arranged in matrix, and a plurality of vertical transfer registers each of which is disposed adjacently to each row of photoelectric transducers for transferring transducer signal charge from the photoelectric transducer, a light shielding section which is controlled to expose the imaging section to photons during an exposure period, and shield the imaging section from photons after the exposure period, a controller configured to: a) drive the vertical transfer registers to remove a first signal charge accumulated by the vertical transfer register during the exposure period, and b) drive the vertical transfer registers to obtain a correction signal after the exposure period, the correction signal including a second signal charge accumulated by the vertical transfer register after the removal of the first signal charge, wherein the correction signal excludes the transducer signal charge accumulated by the photo-electric transducers electrically coupled to the driven vertical transfer registers, a storage section that stores the correction signal, and a subtractor that subtracts the correction signal from image data obtained by driving the vertical transfer registers with the transducer signal charge read out from the photoelectric transducers to vertical transfer registers.