Patent ID: 8842214

Claim:
A color image pickup device comprising: an image pickup device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; a color filter that is provided above a plurality of pixels configured by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter having repeatedly disposed 6×6 pixel basic array patterns configured with a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern includes a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal placed over 2×2 pixels at the top left and a pixel at the bottom right of a 3×3 square array, a second filter corresponding to a second color different from the first color placed in a vertical direction center line and a vertical direction lower edge line of the 3×3 square array, and a third filter corresponding to a third color different from the first color and the second color placed in a horizontal direction center line and a horizontal direction right edge line of the 3×3 square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as that in the first array pattern and has a placement of the second filter and a placement of the third filter reversed from those of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels that are placed at positions corresponding to 2 pixels out of the 2×2 pixels of at least one of the first array pattern or the second array pattern out of 2 first array patterns and 2 second array patterns configuring the basic array pattern.