Image processing apparatus and image processing method

The invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, which can reduce load applied to image processing of image data. The image processing apparatus includes: a separation processing section configured to separate first image data acquired by an image sensor of a Bayer array into second image data including luminance information and third image data including color information, the second image data including luminance information, and the third image data including color information; in a pixel array of the third image data, for each region including two pixels in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, two pixels in one diagonal are of the same type, and two pixels in the other diagonal are of different types, and the pixel array of the third image data is of different types. And the two pixels on the other opposite angle are different from the two pixels on the one opposite angle. 本发明提供一种图像处理装置和图像处理方法，其降低对图像数据的图像处理所施加的负荷。图像处理装置包括：分离处理部，其用于将通过拜耳阵列的图像传感器获取的第一图像数据，