Imaging apparatus and image processor

摘要

An imaging apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus uses a solid-state image pickup device which includes a first linear matrix operation unit configured to perform matrix conversion upon a color component of an image signal obtained by imaging using coefficients capable of improving color reproducibility, a second linear matrix operation unit configured to perform matrix conversion upon the color component using coefficients capable of achieving noise component reduction. The apparatus also includes a signal combining unit configured to combine image signals output from a plurality of signal processing systems each of which includes one of the first and second linear matrix operation units, and a combination ratio setting unit configured to set a combination ratio so that, when a subject is bright, an adequate signal to noise ratio is generated.