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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Rui Morimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an image pickup unit capable of suppressing occurrence of false color and color mixture and acquiring a color image with high image quality. The image pickup unit includes: an image sensor including a plurality of pixels and acquiring an image pickup data; a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image sensor, and transmitting a selective wavelength; and a filter drive section (a wavelength selection circuit and a system control section) driving the variable filter and thereby setting its transmission wavelength. By acquiring the image pickup data while time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength of the variable filter, pixel data corresponding to the transmission wavelength of the variable filter are acquired in a temporally-successive manner.