Patent ID: 8922684

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an image pickup device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; a color filter that is provided above a plurality of pixels configured by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter having repeatedly disposed basic array patterns of a plurality of filters respectively corresponding to a plurality of different colors that are placed in a predetermined pattern in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction; a color mixing correction section that performs color mixing correction on image data of an image captured by the image pickup device; and a noise correction section that performs noise correction processing on the image data that has been color mixing corrected by the color mixing correction section, wherein: in the color filter the basic array pattern is disposed with a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal and second filters respectively corresponding to 2 or more second colors other than the first color, and the basic array pattern is disposed repeating in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction; the first filter is moreover placed such that in the basic array pattern there are portions where there are 2 or more of the first filters adjacent to each other in the horizontal direction, the vertical direction and diagonal directions; the color filter has point symmetry about the center of the basic array pattern.