Patent ID: 8102447

Claim:
A photographing device comprising: more than four filters, wherein each filter has a spectral transmission characteristic that simultaneously transmits light across more than one region of a spectrum; a photographing means that is provided with a plurality of photoelectric converting elements and that receives light from a photographic object through the respective filters with the photoelectric converting elements and that outputs image data according to the amount of the light received; a storage means that stores, for each band of a plurality of bands, plural coefficients for converting the filter spectral transmission characteristics into spectral transmission characteristics of the target band(s), wherein the band width of the spectral transmission characteristic of the target band(s) has a narrower band width than the spectral transmission characteristic of the filters; and a converting means for, using the image data output from the photographing means and using the plurality of coefficients that corresponds with at least one of the bands that have been stored in the storage means, converting the image data that has been output from the photographing means into image data that corresponds with the at least one of the bands.