Patent ID: 8319856

Claim:
An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to capture an image of an object and acquire image data; an integration unit configured to calculate a white balance integration value for calculating a still image white balance control value from the image data acquired by the imaging unit in a still image recording mode; a first calculation unit configured to calculate the still image white balance control value using the white balance integration value calculated by the integration unit; a conversion unit configured to convert a white balance control value which is used to perform white balance processing on the image data acquired by the imaging unit in an electronic view finder (EVF) mode to the still image white balance control value on the basis of sensitivity information of said imaging unit; and a histogram processing unit configured to adjust color balance of the image data acquired by the imaging unit in the still image recording mode using the still image white balance control value converted from the white balance control value in the EVF mode and perform histogram processing for the image data acquired by the imaging unit in the still image recording mode in parallel with calculation of the white balance integration value by the integration unit.