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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomohiko Baba, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G02B 13/00 (2006.01); G02B 7/02 (2006.01); G03B 17/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2253 (2013.01); G02B 7/021 (2013.01); G02B 7/023 (2013.01); G02B 13/002 (2013.01); G02B 13/004 (2013.01); G02B 13/0015 (2013.01); G02B 13/0045 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); G03B 17/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an imaging apparatus including: a lens group including one or more lens elements; and an image sensor having a light-receiving surface onto which an image of an object is formed by the lens group. The light-receiving surface of the image sensor is curved concavely toward the lens group. A distance from a lens surface closest to the light-receiving surface of the lens group to the light-receiving surface is a half or more of a distance from a lens surface closest to the object of the lens group to the light-receiving surface.