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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2009
Takashi Toyoda, Daito, JP;
Yoshizumi Nakao, Daito, JP;
Yoshimasa Imahori, Daito, JP;
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito-shi, JP;
Abstract
A center lens for collecting light in a center range and left/right lenses for collecting light in left/right ranges are supported in one plane to form center and left/right unit images. A microprocessor combines the unit images into a wide-angle image. The left/right optical lenses are placed on left-right direction line parallel to the wide-angle direction, while the center lens is placed distant from the left/right lenses above the direction line. Prisms are placed in front of the left/right lenses, and a toroidal lens to vertically modify the light path for light convergence onto each lens is placed in front of the prisms. The toroidal lens has a vertically curved surface having an axis coinciding with the direction line, and a horizontally cured surface having an axis coinciding with a vertical line passing through the center lens. This device can obtain a wide-angle image with a vertically large picture angle.