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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takashi Oniki, Utsunomiya, JP;
Chiaki Inoue, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A compound eye image pickup apparatus includes a plurality of optical systems () including a first optical system having a longest focal length, and an optical system group of a plurality of second optical systems having focal lengths different from the focal length, and includes an image pickup element () including a plurality of image pickup regions corresponding to the plurality of optical systems, and a condition expression below is satisfied, where p (mm) represents a pixel pitch of the image pickup element, S (mm) represents an area of the image pickup element, Prepresents an average value of the number of pixels of each image pickup region, Prepresents a sum of the number of the pixels of each image pickup region, Nrepresents the number of the first optical systems, and var represents the number of the different focal lengths.