Patent ID: 7868925

Claim:
An image data generator comprising: a light splitting section for splitting incoming light into a number of wavelength ranges; an imager section including a plurality of image capturing sections, in each of which arranged are multiple photoelectric transducer units, each outputting an analog signal representing the incoming light, wherein the image capturing sections receive and capture the incoming light, which has been split into those wavelength ranges by the light splitting section, thereby outputting the analog signals on a wavelength range basis; an A/D converter section having the function of adding together the analog signals that have been output by the photoelectric transducer units, the A/D converter section converting either each of the analog signals supplied from the photoelectric transducer units or the sum thereof into a digital signal; a spatial frequency calculating section for generating frequency spectrum distribution data of the digital signal; a range distribution calculating section having the ability to specify a number of photoelectric transducer units, of which the output analog signals are to be added together by the A/D converter section, on a wavelength range basis by reference to the frequency spectrum distribution data; and a super-resolution section for increasing high-frequency components of the frequency spectrum distribution data of the digital signal that has been supplied from the A/D converter section.