Patent ID: 7889272

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit; and a video processing unit reducing noise of a video signal output from said imaging unit capturing an image; said video processing unit including a filter acquiring a group of a predetermined number of pixels including a focused pixel and pixels surrounding said focused pixel with respect to each of pixels constituting said video signal, rearranging the pixels constituting said group to be arrayed in the order of luminance values, determining the luminance value of the pixel positioned at the center in the rearranged order, and outputting said pixel positioned at the center among the rearranged pixels arrayed in said order of luminance values as said focused pixel, a detection circuit detecting a high frequency component included in the video signal based on the output from said filter, and a noise reduction circuit setting a noise reduction processing state on each pixel in accordance with a detected result of the high frequency component in the video signal output from said detection circuit.