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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2005
Kazuhide Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Yoneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Seishin Asato, Chiba, JP;
Takuya Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Kosakai, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhide Yokota, Kanagawa, JP;
Hisashi Kurebayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Yoneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Seishin Asato, Chiba, JP;
Takuya Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Ryota Kosakai, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A drive method for a solid-state imaging device having an oblique pixel pattern includes the steps of: adding, separately for an odd-numbered row and an even-numbered row, x pixels in the horizontal direction and y pixels in the vertical direction, the x pixels and the y pixels having the same color, in an area having adjacent n pixels in the horizontal direction and adjacent n pixels in the vertical direction, where n is an odd number of three or greater and n≧x≧y; and repeatedly adding the x pixels and the y pixels while shifting the n×n area by m pixels in the vertical or horizontal direction, where m is an odd number of three or greater. The n×n area of odd-numbered rows is displaced from that of even-numbered rows by m pixels in the oblique direction in the oblique pixel pattern.