Patent ID: 8102436

Claim:
An image-capturing apparatus which is provided with: an image sensor that generates an image signal of an image-captured picture; a control unit that controls said image sensor to switch in units of a set period of time between an all-angle-of-view thinning-out read processing in which a thinning-out read is performed on a pixel in an effective image area to generate said image signal and an all-pixel partially read processing in which all the pixels of a partial region of said effective image area are read out of the partial region to generate said image signal; and a resolution conversion/image composition portion for multiplying an image signal generated according to said all-angle-of-view thinning-out read processing by a first gain to generate a first gain adjusted signal, multiplying an image signal generated according to said all-pixel partially read processing by a second gain to generate a second gain adjusted signal, and adding the first gain adjusted signal and second gain adjusted signal to generate an output signal, said first gain and said second gain depending on boundaries within said image signal generated according to said all-pixel partially read processing, in said all-angle-of view thinning-out read processing a thinning-out pattern is changed every frame.