Patent ID: 8169518
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensing device that includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a monochrome image data generation unit that generates monochrome image data provided by providing pixel data corresponding to each pixel with color information obtained from the photoelectric conversion film from a first image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion film of the pixels; a color image data generation unit that generates color image data provided by providing pixel data corresponding to each pixel with three pieces of color information using at least a second image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion elements of the pixels, of the first image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion film of the pixels and the second image pickup signal; and a record image data generation unit that generates record image data using the monochrome image data and the color image data.