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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2012
Applicant:
Ryosuke Uemura, Hachioji, JP;
Inventor:
Ryosuke Uemura, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); G02B 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 15/173 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes a taking optical system and an image pickup element. The taking optical system includes at least two zoom optical systems having the same focal length range. The distance between the optical axes of any two zoom optical systems among the plurality of zoom optical systems is substantially constant over a range from an incidence surface to an image pickup surface of the image pickup element. The plurality of zoom optical systems are arranged in such a way as to form images of an object respectively in different regions on the image pickup surface of the same image pickup element.