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Patent No.:

US 8803976 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 12, 2011
Applicants:

Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Saitami, JP;

Minoru Wakabayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Isobe, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Hidetoshi Kabasawa, Saitami, JP;

Minoru Wakabayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Hiroshi Isobe, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3532 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup element having a plurality of pixels; and a radiation/shielding portion configured to radiate/shield an electromagnetic wave for the image pickup element in such a way that a partial pixel selective radiation state in which the electromagnetic wave is radiated to a part of the pixels in the image pickup element and the electromagnetic wave is shielded for the pixels other than the part of the pixels is obtained in a time division manner while the part of the pixels to each of which the electromagnetic wave is radiated is successively changed.


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