Patent ID: 8400549

Claim:
An imaging and display apparatus comprising; an imaging element for performing photoelectric conversion on an optical image formed by an optical system; a readout control section for controlling said imaging element for sequentially reading out a first image information in which plural kinds of frames including frames corresponding to pixel arrays spatially shifted half pixel pitch in the horizontal and/or vertical direction included in the imaging element form one cycle; a display image information generating section for generating a second image information to be displayed based on said first image information, the second image information comprising plural kinds of frames including frames corresponding to spatially different pixel arrays included in the imaging element which form one cycle, and frame rate of which being lower than that of said first image information; a display element for displaying the image represented by respective frames of said second image information including frames corresponding to pixel arrays spatially shifted half pixel in the horizontal and/or vertical direction included in said imaging element in a progressive manner; and an image shifting section for optically and mutually shifting the images of the plural kinds of frames displayed by said display element according to the mutual shift of barycentric positions of the images in the plural kinds of frames.