Patent ID: 8471918

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: a plurality of lens portion each including at least one lens; a plurality of imaging regions corresponding one-to-one with the plurality of lens portions, the plurality of imaging regions each including a light receiving surface substantially perpendicular to an optical axis direction of the corresponding lens portion, and each outputting an imaging signal; a parallax computing portion that uses any one of imaging signals respectively outputted from the plurality of imaging regions as a reference imaging signal, and computes a parallax amount of other imaging signals relative to the reference imaging signal; and an effective pixel region correcting portion that deletes pixel signals on a row-by-row and/or column-by-column basis from the reference imaging signal, the pixel signals to be deleted being obtained from the pixels corresponding to a periphery of an image, and outputs the resulting effective pixel signal, wherein the plurality of imaging regions are first to fourth imaging regions arranged in two vertical rows and two horizontal lines, the parallax computing portion uses an imaging signal outputted from the first imaging region as a reference imaging signal, and the effective pixel region correcting portion deletes, from the reference imaging signal, pixel signals obtained from pixels on a side located in the positive direction of the direction of parallax that a second imaging signal outputted from the second imaging region laterally adjacent to the first imaging region has relative to the reference imaging signal, and a side located in the positive direction of the direction of parallax that a third imaging signal outputted from the third imaging region longitudinally adjacent to the first imaging region has relative to the reference imaging signal.