Patent ID: 7598982

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit, arranged to form an object image and generate an original image by a photoelectric conversion of the object image; a detector, arranged to detect spatial frequency characteristics of a plurality of color components of the original image; a controller, arranged to designate data format and control supply of the original image to a storage unit in correspondence with the detected spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image; a shift unit, arranged to shift an optical unit to shift pixels of the original image thereby generating a secondary image having pixels of the plurality of color components shifted from pixels of the plurality of color components of the original image; and a generator, arranged to generate a combined image by combining the original image with the secondary image, wherein said shift unit changes a shift amount of the optical unit in correspondence with a result of comparison between the spatial frequency characteristics of the plurality of color components of the original image detected by said detector.