Patent 6985170 was granted and assigned to Olympus Group on January, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An image pickup apparatus comprising an optical element which absorbs rays having specific wavelengths, an optical element which reflects rays having specific wavelengths and an organic color mosaic filter, wherein a total spectral characteristic of the optical elements satisfies the following condition:0.45≦|ΔT/ΔW|≦0.75.