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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2007
Katsumi Imada, Nara, JP;
Katsumi Imada, Nara, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The generation of a false color at the periphery is prevented in an imaging device including a compound eye optical system in which parallax occurs for each color information. An imaging device that includes a plurality of lens portions, a plurality of imaging regions each including a light receiving surface that is substantially perpendicular to the optical axis direction of each of the lens portions, and outputting an imaging signal, and a parallax computing portion that uses any one of the plurality of imaging signal as a reference imaging signal (G), and computes a parallax amount of other imaging signals relative to the reference imaging signal (G), wherein a composite image is generated by correcting and combining the plurality of imaging signals based on an effective pixel signal obtained by deleting a pixel signal obtained from pixels of a region (d min x in the x direction, d min y in the y direction) that may contain image omission resulting from parallax in the imaging signal other than the reference imaging signal (G), and on the parallax amount.