Patent ID: 8848047

Claim:
An endoscopic apparatus comprising: an imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of in-substrate photoelectric converting devices arranged on the same plane in the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of on-substrate photoelectric converting devices, formed on the same plane above the semiconductor substrate, each of which corresponds to each of at least a part of said plurality of in-substrate photoelectric converting devices and comprises a first electrode formed above the semiconductor substrate, a photoelectric converting layer formed on the first electrode and a second electrode formed on the photoelectric converting layer; a color filter layer that is formed above the semiconductor substrate; and wherein the color filter layer comprises a plurality of color filters corresponding to said plurality of in-substrate photoelectric converting devices respectively, and wherein said plurality of color filters comprise at least three types of color filters that transmit lights in different wave ranges from each other, said at least three types of color filters transmit a part of a light in a visible region respectively and at least one of said at least three types of color filters also transmits a light in an infrared region, and the photoelectric converting layer of the on-substrate photoelectric conversion devices absorbs radiation in the infrared region and generates an electric charge corresponding to conversion of the radiation in the infrared region as infrared generated charge, and said photoelectric converting layer of the on-substrate photoelectric conversion devices transmits radiation in the visible light region to the in-substrate photoelectric converting devices through the first electrode, said first electrode being transparent to the visible light region, and said in-substrate photoelectric converting devices generates electric charge corresponding to conversion of the radiation in the visible light region as visible light generated charge; said imaging device further including a signal reading section configured to read a first signal corresponding to the infrared generated charge and a separate second signal corresponding to the visible light generated charge; and an image data generating section that generates image data corresponding to a time that an inspecting target is visually seen and image data obtained by causing an internal change in the inspecting target to be visible from a signal obtained by imaging through the imaging device.