Shading compensation device, shading compensation value calculation device and imaging device

An imaging device comprising:

• a shading compensation device;
• and
• a shading compensation value calculation device,
• wherein the shading compensation device includes:
• a compensation table storage component which stores, for each of colors, a compensation table in which shading compensation values are associated with each of a plurality of representative positions of a single screen;
• a relative position calculation component which, for each color, causes an image signal of the single screen and the compensation table stored in the compensation table storage component to match scale, and calculates a relative position, with respect to the representative positions of the compensation table, of a pixel, of the image signal of the single screen, that is a processing object;
• a shading compensation value interpolation component which, for each color, interpolates a shading compensation value for the relative position calculated by the relative position calculation component on the basis of the relative position and the shading compensation values of the representative positions;
• and
• a shading compensation component which, for each color, generates a shading-compensated pixel signal based on a pixel signal of the pixel that is a processing object and the shading compensation value interpolated by the shading compensation value interpolation component,
• the shading compensation value calculation device includes:
• an image capture element, which takes an image of a subject and generates the image signal;
• an aggregation component which, for each color, aggregates color signals, which are included in the image signal generated by the image capture element, at each of a plurality of regions of the single screen, for calculating aggregate values;
• a white balance adjustment component which, on the basis of the aggregate values of each color calculated by the aggregation component, performs white balance adjustment for an overall region of the single screen with reference to a level of a reference color signal and a level of another color signal at a central portion of the single screen;
• and
• a shading compensation value calculation component, which calculates the shading compensation values on the basis of the aggregate values of the respective regions of the single screen, which have been white balance-adjusted by the white balance adjustment component,
• and the compensation table storage component stores the shading compensation values of each color which have been calculated by the shading compensation value calculation device to serve as the compensation value tables.