Patent ID: 7884866

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image sensor which receives a photographic subject image which enters via an optical system on a light receiving surface having a plurality of pixels where a color separation filter of a plurality of colors is placed on a front side of each pixel, and converts into an electric signal; a pixel output judging section which judges each of the pixels output of the plurality of the pixels if any of the pixels output is equal to or more than a predetermined saturation level or not; a compensation processing section, in a case where a pixel output of a pixel where a color separation filter of a specific color is placed is judged to be equal to or more than the predetermined saturation level by the pixel output judging section, which compensates the pixel output which is judged to be equal to or more than the predetermined saturation level based on a pixel output of a pixel where a color separation filter other than the specific color is placed in the vicinity of the pixel output of the pixel where the color separation filter of the specific color is placed; and a YUV compositing section, based on first YUV data produced from a pixel output which is compensated by the compensation processing section and second YUV data produced from a pixel output which is equal to or more than the predetermined saturation level without being compensated by the compensation processing section, which produces third YUV data by compositing brightness data obtained from the first YUV data and color difference data obtained from the second YUV data.