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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2002
Koichi Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Tajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Yoshikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeru Tajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to prevent the upper part of a subject such as a multistoried building or the like from being photographed in a short form when a wide angle shot is carried out, image pick-up meansare provided at intervals of 90 degrees on a baseThe image pick-up meansrespectively have front convex lensesand image pick-up partsalong vertical planes parallel to each other. The front convex lensesare displaced along the vertical planes so as to be provided at higher positions than those of the image pick-up partsThe NP points of the image pick-up meansare arranged to respectively correspond to each other so that a parallax is reduced.