Nikon Corporation

Taku Arii

Satoshi Nakayama

Wataru Funamizu

Hideki Yamanaka

Yojiro Tezuka

Ryoji Motohana

A plurality of kinds of color filters are disposed at each of pixels in accordance with a color array of two rows and two columns at a pixel section of a solid state imaging device. A first signal outputting circuit and a second signal outputting circuit each perform an addition read of electrical signals from the pixels of one/the other color included in a line to be read. An addition controlling circuit shifts sampling positions of the pixels which are added at a time of the addition read by a unit of the color array between the first signal outputting circuit and a second signal outputting circuit.

Solid state imaging device and imaging apparatus having a plurality of addition read modes

A horizontal driving control unit of an imaging device supplies dummy pulse signals to a horizontal driving unit at least at a part of period during a period from a start time point of each horizontal blanking period to a last signal sampling time point defined by a sampling control signal.

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Yokohama, Japan

Taku Arii