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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2006
Applicant:
Takashi Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takashi Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to an imaging device. An imaging device includes an image sensor for producing an image data related an object image; an optical system for forming on the image sensor the object image in which a predetermined region having as center a position that is different from a center position of the image sensor is expanded and a peripheral region thereof is compressed with distortion; and a distortion correction circuit for correcting the compressed distortion with respect to image data related to the object image from the image sensor.