Patent ID: 8363120

Claim:
An image pick-up apparatus, comprising: an image processing portion including an image sensor which outputs pixel information of a color for each pixel of an image formed by light incident on a light receiving surface constituted of a plurality of light receiving portions and having at least a first mode in which one piece of pixel information is output per light receiving portion(s) as many as a square of a first number among light receiving portions included in a first region of the light receiving surface and a second mode in which one piece of pixel information is output per light receiving portions as many as a number calculated by multiplying the square of said first number by a square of a second number among light receiving portions included in a second region in a figure similar to said first region, at a scaling factor set to the second number; an optical system which guides light incident from outside to said light receiving surface of said image processing portion; a switching operation portion which accepts an operation to switch between wide-angle and telephoto; a control portion which switches said image processing portion to said second mode when an operation to switch to said wide-angle is accepted by said switching operation portion and switches said image processing portion to said first mode when an operation to switch to said telephoto is accepted; and an output portion which outputs image information based on said pixel information output from said image processing portion to a recording medium or to the outside.