Patent ID: 7663679

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state imaging device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and a image data-generation unit that generates image data represented by a first luminance signal and a color-difference signal, based on signals from the plurality of the photoelectric conversion elements, wherein the plurality of the photoelectric conversion elements comprises: a first photoelectric conversion element for obtaining a first color signal; a second photoelectric conversion element for obtaining a second color signal; a third photoelectric conversion element for obtaining a third color signal, the first, second and third color signals being different from one another; and a fourth photoelectric conversion element for a second luminance signal, the fourth photoelectric conversion element being disposed adjacent to each of the first, second and third photoelectric conversion elements, and wherein the image data-generation unit comprises: a signal interpolating-unit that interpolates a signal in each pixel position of image data to be generated, wherein the signal interpolated in the each pixel position is required to generate data of the each pixel position, is selected from the first color signal, the second color signal, the third color signal and the second luminance signals, and is not obtained from a photoelectric conversion element corresponding to the each pixel position; a signal-generation unit that generates, in the each pixel position, a third luminance signal from at least three color signals including the signal interpolated in the each pixel position; and a signal-synthesis unit that synthesizes, in the each pixel position, the second luminance signal and the third luminance signal to generate the first luminance signal; wherein the signal-synthesis unit synthesizes a high frequency component of the second luminance signal and a low frequency component of the third luminance signal to generate the first luminance signal.