Patent ID: 9148634
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06T,H01L,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; a color filter unit that is provided above a plurality of pixels configured by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter unit having a repeatedly disposed basic array pattern wherein 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, are placed in a predetermined pattern of (N×M) pixels in the first direction and the second direction wherein N and M are integers of 3 or more, with one or more of the first filter and the second filters corresponding to each of the second colors respectively placed in each line in the color filter unit in the first direction and the second direction, and with one or more of the first filter placed in each line in the color filter plane in the first direction, the second direction and third directions that intersect with the first direction and the second direction; a line image data generator configured to read pixel signals from a plurality of pixels at a set cycle from the image pickup device, and, from the read pixel signals, generates line image data configured from pixel signals of pixels that are arrayed running along the second direction and are arrayed at an (N+k) line cycle in the first direction, wherein k is a positive integer such that 0<k <N, from out of the plurality of pixels; an image data generator configured to generate image data based on the line image data; and a pixel mixer that respectively mixes pixels that are the same color pixels as each other from the line image data configured from the pixel signals of the pixels that are arrayed running along the second direction and are arrayed at the (N+k) line cycle in the first direction, and from line image data configured from pixel signals of pixels that are arrayed running along the second direction and are arrayed at an N line cycle in the first direction away from the (N+k) line image data.