Patent ID: 8823788

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: a first optical system that focuses incident light and emits the focused light; a second optical system that focuses incident light, emits the focused light, and is different from the first optical system in at least one of polarization characteristics and a transparent wavelength; an imaging unit that includes a light receiving surface divided into a first region on which the light emitted from the first optical system is incident and a second region which is different from the first region and on which the light emitted from the second optical system is incident, can output, as pixel information, an electric signal after photoelectric conversion from pixels which are arbitrarily set as read targets among a plurality of pixels for imaging; a setting unit that can arbitrarily set pixels as the read targets in the imaging unit and sets the pixels in at least one of the first region and the second region as the read targets; a reading unit that reads the pixel information from the pixels which are set as the read targets by the setting unit among the plurality of pixels for imaging in the imaging unit; a control unit that changes the pixels set as the read targets by the setting unit according to an acquisition target image; and an image processing unit that generates the acquisition target image in accordance with at least one of the pixel information items of the pixels read by the reading unit.