Patent ID: 8810710

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that performs imaging with an image sensor having pixels of first, second, and third colors and produces color signals, each of a respective luminance; a color integration unit that integrates a luminance value of each of the first, second, and third colors within a focus determination region of an imaging signal output by the imaging unit; a luminance ratio calculation unit that calculates a ratio of the integrated luminance values of the colors to each other; a luminance normalization unit that normalizes the integrated value of the luminance of the first color within the focus determination region of the imaging signal based on the calculated ratio of the integrated luminance values; a maximum value selection unit that selects a highest integrated luminance value among the integrated luminance values obtained by the color integration unit; and a display processing unit that performs display processing corresponding to the normalized integrated luminance value of the first color; wherein, when the integrated luminance value selected by the maximum value selection unit is supplied to the display processing unit, the display processing unit performs a guide display process corresponding to the normalized integrated luminance value of the first color and the selected integrated luminance value.