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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Mamoru Miyawaki, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mamoru Miyawaki, Tucson, AZ (US);
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus to acquire information about light-field data includes: a beam splitter configured to split light, through a lens unit which is connected to the apparatus, from an object into a first light beam and a second light beam; an image sensor configured to detect the first light beam to form an image of the object; and a light-field sensor, including a lenslet array and a detecting unit to detect the second light beam through the lenslet array, configured to acquire information about the light-field data, the lenslet array including a plurality of lenslets, wherein a first position where the detecting unit is provided is conjugate to a second position of a pupil of the lens unit.
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