Patent ID: 8138466

Claim:
A video signal processing apparatus, comprising: an image sensor and an infrared component remover, the image sensor receiving light through a color filter, the color filter including long-pass filters only or a combination of a long-pass filter and an all-transmissive filter, the long-pass filters including a visible-light transmissive long-pass filter for permitting a visible-light component and an infrared-light component to pass therethrough and an infrared-light transmissive long-pass filter for permitting an infrared-light component to pass selectively therethrough, and the infrared-light component remover removing an infrared-light component contained in a signal having passed through the visible-light transmissive long-pass filter, with transmittance data of an infrared-light region of the visible-light transmissive long-pass filter and the infrared-light transmissive long-pass filter applied.