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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2011
Yoshihiko Kuroki, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshihiko Kuroki, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method so as to be able to obtain disparity information, without deteriorating the image quality of the image. Incident light from a subject is made to be parallel light by a relay lens unit, part thereof is reflected by a transmissive mirror, and the remaining incident light transmits the transmissive mirror. An imaging deviceperforms photoelectric conversion on the incident light which has transmitted the transmissive mirrorand images a basic image, and an imaging deviceperforms photoelectric conversion on the incident light which has reflected off of the transmissive mirrorand images disparity detection images. A disparity image generating unitreplaces pixel values of each pixel on the disparity detection images into the pixel values on the pixels on the basic image corresponding to these pixels and generates right and left disparity images. In this way, if used high-quality basic image and disparity detection image having disparity information, high-quality disparity image pair with appropriate disparity can be obtained. The present invention can be applied to a camera.