Image pickup apparatus with non-debased hue and luminance when reading all pixels and color generation performed by single lines when reading skipped lines

摘要

A single-plate color solid-state image pickup apparatus constructed to prevent a color deviation, using as a color filter array, complementary color filters that are sequentially arranged in color filter columns in a horizontally repeating cycle of four pixels of first, second, third, and fourth, such that: first color-difference signals are obtained as modulated signals periodically in a certain number of pixels from firstsecond and thirdfourth pixel columns; second color-difference signals are obtained as modulated signals periodically in the same pixel number as the first color-difference signals from secondthird and fourthfifth pixel columns; and the first and second color-difference signals obtained from the pixel columns of thirdfourth and fourthfifth are different in phase by 180 degrees from the first and second color-difference signals obtained from the pixel columns of firstsecond and secondthird.