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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Kengo Hayasaka, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Isao Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Isao Hirota, Kanagawa, JP;
Kengo Hayasaka, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Yamamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Isao Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Isao Hirota, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus allowed to obtain parallax information while preventing a decline in apparent resolution. An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup lens having an aperture stop; an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and obtaining image pickup data based on light received on the plurality of pixels; and a microlens array arranged between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device so that one microlens is allocated to 2×2 pixels in the image pickup device. The plurality of pixels are disposed in a fashion of two-dimensional arrangement along two directions rotated a certain angle with respect to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, respectively.