Patent ID: 9036061
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A single-plate color imaging element including color filters in a specific color filter array arranged on a plurality of pixels formed by photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a diagonal grid shape, wherein the color filter array includes a basic array pattern provided with first filters corresponding to a first color with one or more colors and second filters corresponding to a second color with two or more colors with contribution ratios for obtaining luminance signals lower than the first color, the basic array pattern is repeatedly arranged in a diagonal grid shape, one or more first filters are arranged in each line in horizontal, vertical, upper right, and lower right directions of the color filter array, one or more second filters corresponding to each color of the second color are arranged in each line in the upper right and lower right directions of the color filter array in the basic array pattern, and a proportion of the number of pixels of the first color corresponding to the first filters is greater than a proportion of the number of pixels of each color of the second color corresponding to the second filters.