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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2002
Filed:
May. 18, 2000
Jae Chul Lee, Seoul, KR;
Sung Woo Lim, Chonlabuk-Do, KR;
Chun Soo Ko, Daejeon, KR;
Shi Ho Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Yong Ho Oho, Daejeon, KR;
Havit Co., Ltd., Daejeon, KR;
Abstract
There is provided an optical low pass filter passing only a lower spatial frequency using a phase grating and the structure of the grating. The optical low pass filter utilizes the two-dimensionally arranged phase grating for the purpose of removing an image with a higher spatial frequency in an imaging system employing a semiconductor solid-state imaging device such as CCD image sensor or CMOS image sensor, The optical low pass filter which suppresses a spatial frequency component higher than a specific frequency and passes a component lower than the specific frequency in an imaging system sensing input images includes a grating generating the phase shift of 0, a grating generating the phase shift of &phgr;, arranged at the right and bottom of the 0-phase shift grating, and a grating generating the phase shift of 2&phgr;, arranged at the diagonal side of the 0-phase shift grating.