Image sensing apparatus and method of controlling operation of same

A method of controlling operation of an image sensing apparatus, comprising:

• outputting, from a solid-state electronic image sensing device having number of optoelectronic transducers arrayed in horizontal and vertical directions, signal charge, which has accumulated in the optoelectronic transducers, as a video signal, wherein color filters having a filter characteristic for transmitting a light component of any color among colors red, green and blue or a light component of any color among colors cyan, magenta and yellow are formed on photoreceptor surfaces of the optoelectronic transducers, the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the green light component are formed is greater than the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the red light component are formed or the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the blue light component are formed, or the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the yellow light component are formed is greater than the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the cyan light component are formed or the number of the optoelectronic transducers on the photoreceptor surfaces of which the color filters having the filter characteristic for transmitting the magenta light component are formed, and in a block consisting of six of the optoelectronic transducers in each of the horizontal and vertical directions, at least one each of a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a green light component, a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a blue light component and a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a red light component, or at least one each of a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a yellow light component, a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a cyan light component and a color filter having a filter characteristic for transmitting a magenta light component, are formed in all horizontal and vertical directions and, by repeating this block periodically, color filters having a filter characteristic for transmitting a green light component or a yellow light component are formed diagonally;
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• outputting by driving the solid-state electronic image sensing device with a driving circuit, from within the video signal that is output from the solid-state electronic image sensing device, a video signal obtained based upon signal charge that has accumulated in every other odd-numbered one of the optoelectronic transducers in each of the horizontal and vertical directions.