Patent ID: 7825968

Claim:
A multi-color image processor comprising: an image capturing section including a color separating section for separating visible radiation into a light ray with a first-color component and a light ray with a second-color component, which is different from the first-color component, and first and second imagers that receive the light ray with the first-color component and the light ray with the second-color component, respectively, wherein the image capturing section gets multiple images with the first-color components by making the first imager decimate pixels to read on a field-by-field basis on an arrangement of pixels of the first imager and also gets multiple images with the second-color components using the second imager on a field-by-field basis on an arrangement of pixels of the second imager; a motion estimating section for estimating, based on the images with the second-color components, a motion in a moving picture made up of those images with the second-color components and outputting motion information; an image generating section for generating a synthetic image of the first-color components of respective fields based on the images with the first-color components and the motion information and outputting the image thus generated as a first synthetic image that has a higher spatial resolution than the images with the first-color components; and a multi-color image synthesizing section for generating and outputting a picture with the first- and second-color components based on the first synthetic image and the images with the second-color components.