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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
Applicants:
Akiko Murata, Osaka, JP;
Norihiro Imamura, Osaka, JP;
Inventors:
Akiko Murata, Osaka, JP;
Norihiro Imamura, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G03B 13/36 (2006.01); G02B 7/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2013.01); G03B 13/36 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); G02B 7/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes: a lens optical system including six regions having such optical characteristics that focal characteristics are made different from one another; an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels on which light beams having passed through the lens optical system are incident; and an arrayed optical device for making light beams having passed through the six regions incident respectively on different pixels on the image pickup device.