Image pickup apparatus

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2011-04-26

2011-04-26

Ye, Lin (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

With single image scanning device supplying plural color...

C348S264000, C348S265000, C348S272000, C396S377000

Reexamination Certificate

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07932941

ABSTRACT:
An image pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup lens having an aperture diaphragm, an image-pickup element that has a color filter which is periodically allocated colors in units of a predetermined unit array and that generates picked-up image data including pixel data of colors using received light, the color filter being adjacent to a light receiving surface, a microlens array unit that is arranged on an image forming surface of the image-pickup lens and whose microlenses are each allocated a plurality of pixels of the image-pickup element, and an image processing unit that performs image processing on the picked-up image data generated by the image-pickup element. The image processing unit includes a parallax component image generation unit that generates a plurality of parallax component images and an interpolation processing unit that performs color interpolation processing for each of the parallax component images.

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