Patent ID: 8035709

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: a solid-state image pickup device configured to share a circuit necessary for a pixel structure between multiple pixels composing each set, the multiple pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional array, the set including a certain number of pixels having the same arrangement pattern; pixel mixture correcting means for correcting leakage of light that should be incident on each pixel of the solid-state image pickup device from the pixel into adjacent pixels around the pixel and/or leakage of light that should be incident on the adjacent pixels into the pixel in accordance with a correction parameter; correction parameter generating means for generating multiple correction parameters corresponding to the multiple pixels composing the set; and correction parameter selecting means for selecting the correction parameter from the multiple correction parameters supplied from the correction parameter generating means in accordance with which pixel in the multiple pixels composing the set a pixel to be corrected by the pixel mixture correcting means corresponds to and supplying the selected correction parameter to the pixel mixture correcting means.