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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Shigenori Yatsuri, Osaka, JP;
Yoshio Matsumura, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device includes a free-form lens having a shape in which (i) in a long-side direction of an imaging element, a resolution that changes along an optical axis long-side resolution curve, and the resolution that changes along a distant point long-side resolution curve in a position away from an optical axis, (ii) in a short-side direction, the resolution that changes along an optical axis short-side resolution curve, and the resolution that changes along a distant point short-side resolution curve in the position away from the optical axis, (iii) the distant point long-side resolution curve follows a shape of the optical axis long-side resolution curve, and has a higher resolution than the optical axis long-side resolution curve, and (iv) the distant point short-side resolution curve follows a shape of the optical axis short-side resolution curve, and has a higher resolution than the optical axis short-side resolution curve.