Patent ID: 8587704

Claim:
An imaging device, comprising: a lens optical system, for focusing light from a subject; color imaging means, constituted by a plurality of types of regularly arranged fine light receiving sections that detect light of different wavelength bands, for imaging an image of the subject focused by the lens optical system; and an image processing section, for performing a filtering process in which data output by the imaging means is passed through an image reconstructing filter having properties inverse the blur properties of the lens optical system; the arrangement pitch of specified light receiving sections that contribute most to the generation of brightness signals from among the plurality of types of light receiving sections being set to be smaller than the arrangement pitches of other light receiving sections; the lens optical system being of a configuration that expands focal depth by stabilizing spatial frequency properties in the direction of the optical axis, the diameter of the point spread on the light receiving sections being greater than the arrangement pitch of the specified light receiving sections for wavelength bands to be detected by the specified light receiving sections, and less than the arrangement pitches of the other light receiving sections for wavelength bands to be detected by the other light receiving sections; and the image processing section being configured to perform the filtering process only with respect to data output by the specified receiving sections.