Patent ID: 8659647

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image pickup section configured to acquire an image by image pickup of an object and acquire digital data of the image; a determining section that determines whether or not there are a predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with a first bit value or a second bit value in data per pixel included in the digital data acquired by the image pickup section; a bit value inversion processing section that applies, when a determination result that there are the predetermined number or more of consecutive bits with the first bit value or the second bit value is obtained from the determining section, processing of inverting the bit values so that a ratio between the first bit value and the second bit value included in the pixel data corresponding to the determination result becomes a predetermined ratio to the digital data acquired by the image pickup section; and a serial conversion section that serializes and outputs the respective bit values of the digital data obtained as the processing result of the bit value inversion processing section.