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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2010
Eiichiro Yamada, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroshi Suganuma, Yokohama, JP;
Yuji Kobayashi, Yokohama, JP;
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka-shi, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of obtaining images of an object at high precision even if the intensities of illuminating light temporally varies. The imaging apparatuscomprises a lamp unit, lens, a half mirror, a lens, a liquid crystal tunable filter, a lens, a reference mirror, a reference mirror, an image capturing unit, an operation unit, and a display unit. The reference mirrorsandare provided at the positions to which illuminating light led by an optical system for illuminating light is irradiated and which are located at a part of the view of the image capturing unit. The operation unitcorrects the value of the image part of the objectby using the value of the image part of the reference mirrorsandout of the images captured by the image capturing unit