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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2014
Olympus Corporation, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Komiya, Kawaguchi, JP;
Kosei Tamiya, Chofu, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an image capturing module including a microlens array that collects light from a subject, which is imaged at an image plane; a filter that allows light in specific wavelength bands in the collected light to pass therethrough; and an image capturing device that acquires images of the light passing through the filter, wherein the filter is formed by arraying a plurality of RGB filter portions and a plurality of narrow-band filter portions, the image capturing device includes a plurality of color-wavelength obtaining regions and a plurality of narrow-band-wavelength obtaining regions, and the microlens array includes a plurality of first microlenses corresponding to the respective color-wavelength obtaining regions and a plurality of second microlenses corresponding to the respective narrow-band-wavelength obtaining regions, and the first microlenses are each disposed so that the light from the subject imaged at the image plane reaches at least one of the color-wavelength obtaining regions.