PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus which can obtain a multiband image where miniaturization and resolution are secured.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus includes: an objective optical system 1 for image-forming a light flux from an object a division element 2 which includes a first face 2a1 and a second face 2b1, divides a light flux made incident on the first face via the objective optical system into two light fluxes of a reflection light flux and a transmission light flux and reflects the transmission light flux on the second face a first filter arrangement region 5a1 which includes an imaging element 5, and in which a normal line of an imaging face in the imaging element is arranged in a direction crossing a rotational symmetry axis of the objective optical system, a plurality of color filters are disposed and on which the reflection light flux in the two optical fluxes divided on the first face is made incident and a second filter arrangement region 5a2 in which a plurality of color filters including at least one type of color filter whose transmission wavelength characteristic differs from the color filter arranged in the first filter arrangement region are disposed and on which the transmission light flux reflected on the second face is made incident.COPYRIGHT: (C)2014,JPO&INPIT【課題】小型化と解像力が確保された多バンド画像を取得可能な撮像装置の提供。【解決手段】物体からの光束を結像させるための対物光学系1と、第1の面2a1と第2の面2b1を有し、第1の面で対物光学系を経て入射した光束を反射光束と透過光束の2つの光束に分割するとともに、第2の面で透過光束を反射させる分割素子2と、撮像素子5を有し、撮像素子は、撮像面の法線が対物光学系の回転対称軸に対し交差する向きに配置され、且つ、複数のカラーフィルタが配置されていて第1の面で分割された2つの光束のうちの反射光束が入射する第1のフィルタ配置領域5a1と、第1のフィルタ配置領域に配置されたカラーフィルタとは透過波長特性が異なるカラーフィルタを少なくとも1種類含む複数のカラーフィルタが配置されていて第2の面で反射した透過光束が入射する第2のフィルタ配置領域5a2を備える。【選択図】図1
