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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2012
Sunao Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sunao Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;
Masahiro Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A stereoscopic imaging apparatus includes: an objective optical system that forms a subject as a real or virtual image. Light beams of the subject, emitted in different paths of the objective optical system by independent optical systems, are imaged again as a parallax image, which is converted into an image signal. A control unit moves a front-side principal point of each of the imaging optical systems, so that the ratio of the length of a perpendicular line from that front-side principal point to the optical axis of the objective optical system with respect to the length of a line connecting the point at which the perpendicular line and the optical axis intersect and the focal point of the objective optical system becomes constant.