Patent ID: 8169518

Claim:
An image pickup apparatus comprising: a solid-state image sensing device that includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including: a photoelectric conversion film that is formed above a semiconductor substrate for absorbing light in a specific wave range and generating a charge responsive thereto; and a photoelectric conversion element that is formed in the semiconductor substrate below the photoelectric conversion film and is made up of at least three types of photoelectric conversion elements for detecting light in different wave ranges, of visible light, wherein the photoelectric conversion film absorbs light in a wave range different from the wave ranges detected in the at least three types of photoelectric conversion elements and generates a charge responsive to the absorbed light; a monochrome image data generation unit that generates monochrome image data provided by providing pixel data corresponding to each pixel with color information obtained from the photoelectric conversion film from a first image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion film of the pixels; a color image data generation unit that generates color image data provided by providing pixel data corresponding to each pixel with three pieces of color information using at least a second image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion elements of the pixels, of the first image pickup signal obtained from the photoelectric conversion film of the pixels and the second image pickup signal; and a record image data generation unit that generates record image data using the monochrome image data and the color image data.