Patent ID: 8570421

Claim:
An image capture device comprising a solid-state image sensor, a shooting control section that controls the solid-state image sensor, and an image processing section that processes an image that has been shot by the solid-state image sensor, wherein the solid-state image sensor includes: an image capturing plane on which a number of pixels, including pixels in a first color and pixels in a second color, are arranged two-dimensionally in a first direction and in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, a column of pixels that runs in the first direction including pixels in the first color and pixels in the second color; multiple banks of charge-coupled devices, each said bank running in the first direction, being connected to an associated column of pixels that runs in the first direction, and being able to receive and store, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, electric charges that have been created by each of the pixels that form the column; multiple charge sensing devices of a first type, each of which is connected to an associated one of the multiple banks of charge-coupled devices, senses electric charges that have been extracted from pixels in the first color and stored in the associated bank of charge-coupled devices, and transforms the electric charges into a voltage signal; multiple charge sensing devices of a second type, each of which is connected to an associated one of the multiple banks of charge-coupled devices, senses electric charges that have been extracted from pixels in the second color and stored in the associated bank of charge-coupled devices, and transforms the electric charges into a voltage signal; a transfer path that runs in the second direction and that outputs pixel signals through one terminal thereof; and a plurality of output signal lines that run in the first direction, each said output signal line being connected to at least some of the charge sensing devices and transmitting the voltage signals that have been output from the charge sensing devices to the transfer path, and wherein the shooting control section reads a first color image, which is made up of pixels in the first color, from the solid-state image sensor at a first frame rate and also reads a second color image, which is made up of pixels in the second color, from the solid-state image sensor at a second frame rate that is lower than the first frame rate.