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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. 06, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2003
Applicant:
Yusuke Ohmura, Tochigi, JP;
Inventor:
Yusuke Ohmura, Tochigi, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image-taking apparatus is disclosed that includes an image-pickup portion having a plurality of image-pickup regions, and a plurality of image-forming portions respectively corresponding to the plurality of image-pickup regions. The plurality of image-forming portions of the image-taking apparatus include a combination of image-forming portions that form object images on the corresponding image-pickup regions, by using light of mutually different wavelength regions. The image-forming portions constituting the combination have mutually different F numbers or mutually different apertures diameters of stops.