Patent ID: 8040412

Claim:
An image apparatus comprising: an optical system operable to form an image of a subject; plural types of color filters; an image device including a plurality of pixels each of which receives a light incident to the imaging apparatus through a predetermined type of color filter and begin operable to generate analog image signals at the plurality of pixels from the image formed by the optical system; an AD converter operable to generate image data subjected to digital processing, from the analog image signals from the imaging device; a divider operable to divide an image presented by the image data generated by the AD converter into a plurality of divided regions; a light information acquiring section operable to acquire information on the incident light; and a correction processing section operable to convert a position of a pixel of the image data, according to type of the color filter provided for the pixel and the information on the incident light acquired by the light information acquiring section, wherein the light information acquiring section acquires the information on the incident light based on image data of a predetermined number of divided regions which are selected from the plurality of divided regions based on a level of luminance of each divided region of the plurality of divided regions.