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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1995
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tadashi Okino, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348218 ; 348229 ;
Abstract
An image pickup device includes a split member for splitting image pickup light from an object into a plurality of beams in equal light amounts, and forming object images at different positions, a plurality of image pickup elements, light-receiving portions of which are arranged at split positions which are not adjacent to each other when an object image is split into a plurality of image portions on each image formation plane, and an image synthesizing circuit for receiving information from the image pickup elements, and synthesizing the object image. The image pickup elements are controlled by a timing signal from a single clock generation circuit.