PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus capable of acquiring polarization information from each pixel.SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus 100 in the embodiment includes: an optical sensing cell array (imaging element 110) in which a plurality of optical sensing cells are two-dimensionally arranged along an imaging surface 110a an imaging lens 109 for forming an image on the imaging surface 110a a polarization element 106c having and N (N is an integer of not less than 3) polarizers having different polarization transmission axis directions, in which the N polarizers are concentrically arranged, and wherein a boundary of adjacent polarizers is concentric a shutter 106b for shielding at least one part of light entering to the polarization element 106c or at least one part of light transmitting the polarization element 106c and a shutter driving part 112 for driving the shutter 106b so as to enter light transmitting the plurality of polarizers having different polarization transmission axis directions of the polarization element 106c into a same optical sensing cell of the optical sensing cell array 110 sequentially during imaging.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】各画素から偏光情報を取得することができる撮像装置を提供する。【解決手段】本発明の実施形態における撮像装置100は、複数の光感知セルが撮像面110aに沿って2次元に配列された光感知セルアレイ(撮像素子110)と、撮像面110aに像を形成する撮影レンズ109と、偏光透過軸方向が異なるN個(Nは3以上の整数)の偏光子を有する偏光素子106cであって、N個の偏光子が同心円状に配列され、隣接する偏光子の境界が同心円である偏光素子106cと、偏光素子106cに入射する光の少なくとも一部または偏光素子106cを透過する光の少なくとも一部を遮蔽するシャッター106bと、偏光素子106cの偏光透過軸方向が異なる複数の偏光子を透過した光を、撮像時に順次、光感知セルアレイ110の同一の光感知セルに入射させるようにシャッター106bを駆動するシャッター駆動部112とを備える。【選択図】図1
