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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2011
Go Maruyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Sadao Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshimichi Hagiya, Chiba, JP;
Jun Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Shin Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Go Maruyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Sadao Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshimichi Hagiya, Chiba, JP;
Jun Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;
Shin Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus comprises a lens array with a plurality of lenses, a part of which lenses makes one or more stereo lens pairs; an image pickup device for taking a multifaceted compound-eye image consisting of a set of monocular images formed by the plural lenses; and a computing unit for computing range imagery from one or more pairs of the monocular images formed by said one or more stereo lens pairs. The computing unit includes imaging position determination means for determining from the monocular images an image pickup position of each of one or more subjects whose relative positional relationships with respect to the image pickup apparatus are known by dividing the multifaceted compound-eye image into the monocular images, and image distortion parameter determination means for determining an image distortion parameter based upon a determination result of the imaging position determination means.