Solid-state imaging device, method for processing signal of solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8947564-B2
Application number	US-201313847957-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2013
Priority date	Dec 8, 2008
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

A solid-state imaging device includes a color filter unit disposed on a pixel array unit including pixels two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix and a conversion processing unit disposed on a substrate having the pixel array unit thereon. The color filter unit has a color arrangement in which a color serving as a primary component of a luminance signal is arranged in a checkerboard pattern and a plurality of colors serving as color information components are arranged in the other area of the checkerboard pattern. The conversion processing unit converts signals that are output from the pixels of the pixel array unit and that correspond to the color arrangement of the color filter unit into signals that correspond to a Bayer arrangement and outputs the converted signals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A solid-state imaging device, comprising:
a pixel array unit, including:
a light receiving surface;
a plurality of unit pixels;
a color filter array unit disposed on a light incident side of the pixel array unit, the color filter array including a plurality of white light filters, a plurality of green light filters, a plurality of red light filters, and a plurality of blue light filters,
wherein a first group of color filters arranged in a direction a…

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Hirota Isao

Classifications

• H04N23/843

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/133 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/135

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N25/778

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N9/77 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic