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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:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 10, 2019
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Takumi Uehara, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image capturing apparatus () including a plurality of image capturing units (to) that are arranged with reference to a predetermined axis (), each of the plurality of image capturing units includes a first optical element () arranged at an object side, the first optical element having a first axis (OA), a second optical element () arranged at an image side, the second optical element having a second axis (OA), a third optical element () configured to bend a light beam from the first optical element to be introduced to the second optical element, and an image sensor), and in at least one of the plurality of image capturing units, the second optical axis is different from a direction of the predetermined axis.


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