Patent ID: 8436925

Claim:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a pixel array unit including pixels arranged two-dimensionally in a matrix of rows and columns relatively along a first direction and a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction, respectively; a color filter unit disposed over the pixel array unit, the color filter unit having a coding with regions respectively corresponding to the pixels, the regions transmitting either white light or light of a primary color, the white light transmitting regions being arranged in a checkerboard pattern at a one-pixel pitch, red light transmitting regions being arranged in a checkerboard pattern at a two-pixel pitch, blue light transmitting regions being arranged in a checkerboard pattern at a two-pixel pitch, each of the red light transmitting regions being diagonally shifted from one of the blue light transmitting regions by one pixel, and all remaining regions being green light transmitting regions; and a conversion processing unit, the conversion processing unit converting signals that are output from the pixels of the pixel array unit and that correspond to the coding of the color filter unit into converted signals that correspond to a Bayer arrangement and outputting the converted signals, wherein the coding is such that in a four by four section of the color filter unit: white light transmitting regions are present in a first row in first and third columns, in a second row in second and fourth columns, in a third row in the first and third columns, and in a fourth row in the second and fourth columns, blue light transmitting regions are present in the first row in the second column, and in the third row in the fourth column, red light transmitting regions are present in the second row in the first column and in the fourth row in the third column, and green light transmitting regions are present in the first row in the fourth column, in the second row in the third column, in the third row in the second column, and in the fourth row in the first column.