Imaging apparatus and imaging system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSeiji Hashimoto
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Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a pixel unit having a plurality of components, each having a plurality of pixels arranged in row and column directions. The plurality of pixels in each component output color signals having a plurality of colors. The apparatus also includes an adding unit configured to perform an addition of color signals of the same color in each component. The color signals are outputted from the plurality of pixels. The adding unit performs the addition without adding a color signal outputted from a part of the plurality of pixels in each component such that spatial centroids of the added color signals having a plurality of colors are located at substantially the same pitch at least in one of the row and column directions.
Claims10
1-8. (canceled)
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a pixel unit having a plurality of components, each having a plurality of pixels arranged in row and column directions, the plurality of pixels in each component outputting color signals having a plurality of colors;
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- an adding unit configured to perform the addition of color signals of the same color from an identical row within each component to generate a horizontally added signal, and to perform an addition of the horizontally added signals from different rows of each component, and
- wherein the adding unit performs the addition without adding a color signal output from a part of the plurality of pixels in each component such that spatial centroids of the added color signals having a plurality of colors are located at substantially the same pitch at least in one of the row and column directions.
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