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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2010
Applicants:

Nobuhiro Morita, Tokyo, JP;

Go Maruyama, Kanagawa, JP;

Sadao Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Jun Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Toshimichi Hagiya, Chiba, JP;

Shin Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;

Ikuo Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Nobuhiro Morita, Tokyo, JP;

Go Maruyama, Kanagawa, JP;

Sadao Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;

Jun Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Toshimichi Hagiya, Chiba, JP;

Shin Aoki, Kanagawa, JP;

Ikuo Maeda, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An imaging device includes a lens array including multiple lenses facing a subject; an image sensor obtaining a compound-eye image including single-eye images of the subject formed by the lenses; and a computing unit processing the compound-eye image obtained by the image sensor. The lenses have different radii of curvature and substantially the same back focal length, and the computing unit extracts an in-focus image from the compound-eye image.


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