Patent ID: 8836825

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a lens optical system having a first region in which a first color, a second color, and a third color of light pass through, and a second region in which the first color, second color, and third color of light pass through, the second region having an optical power for causing at least two or more colors of light to be converged at different positions from respective converged positions of the first color, second color, and third color of light passing through the first region; an imaging device having a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels on which light from the lens optical system is incident; an array optical device disposed between the lens optical system and the imaging device, the array optical device causing light passing through the first region to enter the plurality of first pixels, and causing light passing through the second region to enter the plurality of second pixels; and a calculation processing section for generating an output image, wherein the calculation processing section generates a first image of at least one color component among the first color, second color, and third color by using pixel values obtained at the plurality of first pixels, generates a second image containing the same color component as the at least one color component by using pixel values obtained at the plurality of second pixels, detects, for each color, an image component of a higher sharpness or contrast value between a predetermined region of the first image and a predetermined region of the second image, and generates the output image by using the detected image component for each color.