Patent ID: 8736743

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 has a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal placed at the 4 corner and center pixels of a 3×3 pixel square array, a second filter corresponding to a second color different from the first color placed in a line at the horizontal direction center of the square array, and a third filter corresponding to a third color different from the first color and the second color placed in a line at the vertical direction center of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as that in the first array pattern and has the placement of the second filter and the placement of the third filter swapped over to that of the first array pattern; a first phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of 4 corner portions of the 4 corners of an array pattern in 1 pair of the first array pattern and the second array pattern out of 2 pairs of the first array pattern and the second array pattern configuring a first basic array pattern of the basic array patterns; and a second phase difference detection pixel that is placed at a position of a pixel corresponding to 1 corner portion out of 4 corner portions of the 4 corners in an array pattern out of the first array pattern and the second array pattern configuring a second basic array pattern of the basic array patterns that is adjacent in the vertical direction to the first basic array pattern including the first phase difference detection pixel, so that the array pattern including the second phase difference detection pixel is disposed in the same horizontal direction position to the array pattern including the first phase difference detection pixel.