Patent ID: 7903155

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image pickup device in which photoelectric conversion elements corresponding to color components are arranged in a predetermined pattern such that each color component in a given row repeats every two pixels, said predetermined pattern corresponding to a first color layout of a first format in which a color image is generated by said image pickup device; an acquisition unit that successively acquires a plurality of color images by using said image pickup device; a detector that detects a positional deviation among said plurality of color images shifting each pixel of the image by an amount of two pixels; a synthesis unit that compensates said positional deviation to synthesize said plurality of color images in said first format to form a synthesized image in said first format so that pixel values of said plurality of images are added in a state where the pixels of the same color component in said plurality of images are associated with each other; and a converter that receives the synthesized image from the synthesis unit and performs a converting process for converting the synthesized image to a color image in a second format where the color image has a second color layout which is different from the first color layout, wherein each pixel of the second format has multiple color components.