Patent ID: 8373769

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: an imaging section; a gain adjustment section to adjust a gain value of an R component or a gain value of a B component so that an average value of R components and an average value of B components match an average value of G components, respectively, among color components of pixels in a gray region included in an image imaged by the imaging section; an information obtaining section to obtain information about a luminance distribution of each of the color components of the image after an adjustment by the gain adjustment section; a first judgment section to judge whether at least one of a luminance distribution of the R component and a luminance distribution of the B component has a width that is equal to or more than a predetermined value among luminance distributions of the respective color components in the information obtained by the information obtaining section; a gain re-adjustment section to re-adjust at least one of the gain value of the R component and the gain value of the B component, having been adjusted by the gain adjustment section, to be suppressed, when the first judgment section judges that at least one of the luminance distribution of the R component and the luminance distribution of the B component has a width that is equal to or more than the predetermined value; and an image recording section to record an image imaged by the imaging section and obtained by performing a color adjustment by using a gain value re-adjusted by the gain re-adjustment section.