Patent ID: 11900571
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. An imaging device comprising:
an imaging element;
an optical system configured to form an image on an imaging surface of the imaging element and has a characteristic in which an image formation magnification differs depending on a position in the imaging surface; and
at least one processor or circuit configured to function as
a demosaic unit configured to generate color image data of at least two colors from the data output from the imaging element,
a distortion correction unit configured to correct distortion of the color image data of at least two colors generated by the demosaic unit, and
a mosaic unit configured to perform a mosaic process on the color image data of at least two colors of which the distortion has been corrected by the distortion correction unit.