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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Tsujii, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention employs an object information acquiring apparatus including a plurality of light irradiators irradiating light from a light source to an object; an intensity modulator modulating intensity of the irradiated light for each light irradiator; a plurality of acoustic detectors detecting an acoustic wave generated from the object; and an information processor producing internal characteristic information of the object by using the acoustic wave, wherein the information processor controls a weight of each acoustic detector in production of the characteristic information, based on the intensity of light in each light irradiator.