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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 01, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Taisei Mori, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3572 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus according to the present invention comprises: an image forming optical system; an image sensor including a plurality of pixels; an image fiber including a plurality of optical fibers that guides light from the image forming optical system to the image sensor; and a processing unit that applies processing for compensating for illumination unevenness of the image sensor caused by the image fiber, wherein at least some of the light propagating inside a first one of the optical fibers and at least some of the light propagating inside a second one of the optical fibers are guided to one of the pixels.