Patent ID: 8368775

Claim:
An imaging apparatus having a live-view image shooting mode in which a process of shooting a subject, generating image data from imaging signals acquired by the shooting, and displaying a live-view image based on the image data on a display section is repeatedly performed, the imaging apparatus comprising: a solid-state imaging device that shoots the subject; an image data generating unit that performs different image processings for imaging signals of respective groups to generate n pieces of image data, wherein the imaging signals of the respective groups are obtained when imaging signals, which are output from the solid-state imaging device in single shooting in the live-view image shooting mode, are divided into the n groups, and n denotes natural number equal to or larger than 2; a display controller that displays, on the display section, a screen which includes n live-view images based on the n pieces of image data, wherein the imaging signals are input to the image data generating unit in an order in which the imaging signals are output from the solid-state imaging device, a dividing pattern in which the imaging signals are divided into the n groups is set so that the imaging signals of the different groups are input to the image data generating unit every predetermined number of imaging signals, the image data generating unit includes a signal processing section that performs the signal processes for the input imaging signals using predetermined signal processing parameters, and whenever the signal process for the predetermined number of imaging signals ends, the signal processing section changes the signal processing parameter to a signal processing parameter corresponding to the group of the imaging signals which will be input next, and performs the signal process.