Patent ID: 8730545

Claim:
A color image pickup device comprising: an image pickup device comprising a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arrayed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction; a color filter that is provided above a plurality of pixels configured by the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, the color filter having repeatedly disposed 6×6 pixel basic array patterns configured with a first array pattern and a second array pattern disposed symmetrically about a point, wherein the first array pattern includes a first filter corresponding to a first color that contributes most to obtaining a brightness signal placed over 2×2 pixels at the top left and a pixel at the bottom right of a 3×3 square array, a second filter corresponding to a second color different from the first color placed over a pixel at a right end of a vertical direction center line of the square array and over a pixel at a left end of a vertical direction lower edge line of the square array, and a third filter corresponding to a third color different from the first color and the second color placed over a pixel at the right end of the vertical direction upper edge line of the square array and over a pixel at the center of the vertical direction lower edge line of the square array, and the second array pattern has the same placement of the first filter as that in the first array pattern and has a placement of the second filter and a placement of the third filter swapped over to those of the first array pattern; and phase difference detection pixels that are placed at positions corresponding to 2 pixels that are adjacent in the horizontal direction out of the 2×2 pixels of at least one side of the upper side or lower side disposed first array pattern and second array pattern out of the 2 first array patterns and the 2 second array patterns configuring the basic array pattern.