Patent ID: 7986359

Claim:
An electronic image pickup apparatus comprising: a color image pickup element which has a plurality of drive modes including at least a first drive mode and a second drive mode; a color-conversion parameter storage section which stores a first color-conversion parameter for color-converting color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode; a color-conversion parameter computing section which computes from the first color-conversion parameter a second color-conversion parameter for color-converting color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode to be equivalent in color reproducibility to the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode; a computation parameter storage section which stores a computation parameter for computing the second color- conversion parameter; and a color-conversion section which color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the first drive mode according to the first color-conversion parameter and also color-converts the color data acquired by the color image pickup element in the second drive mode according to the second color-conversion parameter, wherein the first color-conversion parameter is a first color matrix for use with the first drive mode, the computation parameter is a correction matrix, and the second color-conversion parameter is a second color matrix for use with the second drive mode.