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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroyuki Kawano, Tokyo, JP;

Kosaku Yamagata, Tokyo, JP;

Tadashi Minobe, Tokyo, JP;

Tatsuya Kunieda, Tokyo, JP;

Masatoshi Kodama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/14 (2006.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/1581 (2013.01); G02B 3/0006 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/14678 (2013.01); H04N 3/1568 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capturing device () includes: a microlens array () including a plurality of micro condenser lenses () arranged at a focal position of an imaging optical system for forming a plurality of erect equal-magnification images; and an imaging unit () including light-sensitive pixels () provided at positions corresponding to the micro condenser lenses. Micro condenser lenses () have refractive powers to condense, among light rays incident from the imaging optical system, light rays incident at an incident angle within a predetermined limited angle range, onto positions different from positions on which light rays incident at an incident angle outside the limited angle range are incident. Effective light-sensitive regions of the light-sensitive pixels () receive only light rays incident at an incident angle within the limited angle range among light rays entered micro condenser lenses ().


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