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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2015
Izumi Itoh, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Fujishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sukehiro Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Izumi Itoh, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Fujishima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sukehiro Kimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyoshi Sekiguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuji Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To achieve an image pickup element that can utilize polarized light as well as non-polarized light to image or capture an object, an image pickup element is provided to an imaging apparatus that forms an image of an object to be imaged onto a light-receiving surface of an image sensor, acquires a polarized filter image together with a regular luminance image, and executes image processing on the acquired images. The image pickup element includes, on a light-receiving surface LRS of the image sensor IMS, a polarizing filter PFL including at least two kinds of pixels having different transmission and polarization properties from each other.