Patent ID: 7952624

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image sensor in which a plurality of unit pixels are arrayed on a chip, said image sensor comprising a filter for dividing a wavelength range of a spectral characteristic to each of a blue component, a green component and a red component of incident light into two or more portions and separating the incident light into six or more color components; a conversion section for converting signals corresponding to the six or more color components separated by the image sensor to digital signals, respectively; and an image processing section for processing the signals output from the conversion section to produce color signals, wherein: the image processing section is configured to produce color signals over the entire human visible wavelength range based on information about two or more colors obtained by the image sensor even if there is no color information on an object over the entire human visible wavelength range, and all of spectral bandwidths of the six or more color components are narrower than a spectral bandwidth of a human eye with respect to each of said blue component, said green component, and said red component.