Patent ID: 8749672

Claim:
A digital camera comprising a multi-spectral imaging device which includes pixels that compose color sensors for four or more colors having mutually differing spectral sensitivity characteristics, and which is capable of operating in either a first signal readout mode in which an image signal including a first information amount is read in a first signal readout time or a second signal readout mode in which an image signal including a second information amount that is smaller than the first information amount is read in a second signal readout time that is shorter than the first signal readout time, wherein the multi-spectral imaging device is configured to output image signals in a number of colors corresponding to all of the four or more colors read from the pixels composing the color sensors for the four or more colors in the first signal readout mode, and output image signals in a smaller number of colors in the second signal readout mode than in the first signal readout mode, including at least signals in colors corresponding to three primary colors of R (red), G (green), and B (blue), to form a narrower gamut than a gamut that can be reproduced by the image signals output in the first signal readout mode.