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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2008
Yuji Kamo, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Yuji Kamo, Shibuya-ku, JP;
Olympus Imaging Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to an imaging apparatus that makes effective use of an image restoration processing method, thereby working favorably for size reductions while making sure zoom ratios and brightness, and ensuring good images. The imaging apparatus includes a zoom lenscomprising a plurality of lens groups Gto Gand adapted to implement zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end with a change in a space between the plurality of lens groups, an imaging deviceadapted to take an image formed through the zoom lens, and an image restoration processoradapted to implement signal processing by which image restoration is implemented on the basis of a signal for the image taken by the imaging deviceto generate an image signal for a restored image. The signal processing for implementing image restoration at the image restoration processorinvolves processing for electrically implementing image restoration using a restoration filter on the basis of a point spread function regarding the imaging capability of the zoom lens. The zoom lens and the imaging device have a relation that satisfies condition (1) for balancing the power of restoration at the image restoration processoragainst the total length of the zoom lens