Patent ID: 8031234

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging device including a pixel array of color pixels and luminance-detecting pixels, wherein the color pixels includes a first color pixel that detects an amount of incident light of a first color among three primary colors, a second color pixel that detect an amount of incident light of a second color among the three primary colors, and a third color pixel that detects an amount of incident light of a third color among the three primary colors, the luminance-detecting pixels detect luminance information and are arranged adjacent to respective color pixels, and the pixel array includes a line in which the first color pixel and the second color pixel are repeatedly arranged, a line in which the second color pixel and the third color pixel are repeatedly arranged, and a line in which only the luminance-detecting pixels are arranged; a controlling section that generates first complementary color information by adding data of the first color pixel and data of the second color pixel adjacent to the first color pixel, generates second complementary color information by adding data of the second color pixel and data of the third color pixel adjacent to the second color pixel, and generates luminance information by adding respective data of luminance-detecting pixels adjacent to each other, when data of a reduced image having a reduced resolution as compared with a resolution for the whole pixels of the imaging device is generated, and a signal processing section that signal-processes the first complementary color information, the second complementary color information, and the luminance information to reproduce a taken image.