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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes an image forming optical system which includes an aperture stop and a plurality of lens components, and an image pickup section which has a light-receiving surface which is not flat but is curved to be concave toward the image forming optical system. The image forming optical system includes a first lens component having a negative refractive power, a second lens component having a positive refractive power, and a third lens component having a positive refractive power. In the first lens component, a lens surface on the object side is convex toward the object side, and in a lens surface on the object side of the second lens component, a part of an area is concave toward the object side. Moreover, the following conditional expression (1) is satisfied:0.5<(1+1)/(1−1)<2.5  (1).