Imaging apparatus and color contamination correction method

A color contamination correction method to be performed on shot image signals produced by shooting by an imaging apparatus having:

• a solid-state imaging device which is provided with plural pixels arranged in two-dimensional array form on a photodetecting surface of a semiconductor substrate, pixels on even-numbered rows are shifted from pixels on odd-numbered rows by a half pixel pitch, color-filters are Bayer-arranged over the respective pixels of the odd-numbered rows, and color-filters are Bayer-arranged over the respective pixels of the even-numbered rows;
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• an imaging device driving section for reading shot image signals of the pixels of the odd-numbered rows and shot image signals of the pixels of the even-numbered rows divisionally in separate frames, characterized by:
• performing a color contamination correction on a shot image signal of a pixel of attention using shot image signals of plural pixels around the pixel of attention among shot image signals, read out divisionally, of the pixels of one of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows in such a manner that a shot image signal of a pixel of the other of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows among the plural pixels is replaced by a shot image signal of a pixel of the one of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows that is adjacent to the pixel of the other of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows in an oblique direction and that has a color filter of the same color as the pixel of the other of the odd-numbered rows and the even-numbered rows.