Patent ID: 7233355

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a multiplicity of image pickup devices used for an interlaced scanning; a controller for controlling said image pickup devices with at least one of said multiple image pickup devices and at least one of remaining image pickup devices thereof being driven on opposite interlaced fields to generate image signals on the interlaced scanning basis out of said respective image pickup devices; and a scanning converter for interpolating said image signals generated on the interlaced scanning basis into each other to generate image signals on a progressive scanning basis, wherein said scanning converter performs frequency band division on each of said image signals generated on the interlaced scanning basis to interpolate frequency-divided components obtained by said frequency band division in relation to luminance, wherein said scanning converter includes a frequency component generator for generating low-frequency components and high-frequency components of said image signals on the progressive scanning basis for each of said image signals generated on the interlaced scanning basis; a luminance interpolating component generator for generating luminance-interpolating components based on said high-frequency components generated for each of said image signals generated on the interlaced scanning basis; and a component adder for adding said luminance-interpolating components to each of said lower components of said image signals generated on the progressive scanning basis.