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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2004
Takamasa Wada, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiichi Funatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Mabuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ken Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuaki Hirota, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyuki Satou, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Umeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuo Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Fujita, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Takamasa Wada, Kanagawa, JP;
Eiichi Funatsu, Tokyo, JP;
Keiji Mabuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Ken Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuaki Hirota, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyuki Satou, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Abe, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Umeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuo Nakamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Fujita, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solid state imaging device having an X-Y addressable solid state imaging device with color filters and a driving unit which reads out pixel information of a same color filter in a unit pixel block as pixel information for one pixel simulatively. A predetermined color coding for the pixels has two rows and two columns. When k is a positive integer equal to or larger than 0, with (2k+3)×(2k+3) pixel blocks as unit pixel blocks, the driving unit reads out pieces of pixel information of the same color filter in each of the unit pixel blocks, the driving unit reads out pieces of pixel information of a same color filter in each of the unit pixel blocks simulatively as pixel information for one pixel in a state in which the unit pixel blocks are laid without overlapping one another, and the driving unit averages the added pieces of pixel information and outputs the averaged pieces of pixel information.