Patent ID: 8964087
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an image pickup device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a predetermined first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction; an amplification section that treats as respective common pixels (K×L) pixels in the first direction and the second direction (wherein K, L are integers of 2 or more), and amplifies an image capture signal for each of the common pixels; a color filter that is provided above a plurality of pixels configured by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter having a repeatedly disposed basic array pattern that includes a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal, and second filters respectively corresponding to 2 or more second colors other than the first color, placed in a predetermined pattern of (N×M) pixels in the first direction and the second direction (wherein N>K and M>L); a line image data generation section that performs charge sweeping by applying sequential shutter pulses to the image pickup device in turn to each pixel, or to each scan line running along the second direction, or to each plurality of pixels on a scan line running along the second direction, and reading pixel signals of the plurality of pixels at a set cycle from the image pickup device, and, from the read pixel signals, generating line image data of pixels, from out of the plurality of pixels, that are arrayed running along the second direction at a cycle of from K pixels to N pixels in the first direction; and an image data generating section that generates image data based on the line image data.