Patent ID: 8462228

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a flash emission unit capable of emitting flash light; an imaging condition control unit that controls imaging conditions including control of flash emission of the flash emission unit; an image pickup unit that obtains a color image by imaging a subject; a specific subject detection unit that detects a specific subject having a specific color from the color image obtained by the image pickup unit; a first white balance coefficient calculation unit that calculates a first white balance coefficient based on the color image; a second white balance coefficient calculation unit that calculates a second white balance coefficient based on the specific subject; a luminance weighting factor calculation unit that calculates a luminance weighting factor based on presence or absence of flash emission controlled by the imaging condition control unit; a third white balance coefficient calculation unit that calculates a third white balance coefficient by weighting the first white balance coefficient and the second white balance coefficient according to the luminance weighting factor; and a white balance correction unit that corrects the color image using the calculated third white balance coefficient.