Television – Camera – system and detail – Unitary image formed by compiling sub-areas of same scene
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-13
2011-10-04
Tran, Sinh (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Unitary image formed by compiling sub-areas of same scene
C348S335000, C438S144000, C257S294000, C359S362000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08031232
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to an image pickup apparatus, a method for capturing an image, and a method for designing the image pickup apparatus capable of realizing a fixed focal length image pickup apparatus of high resolution and fine resolution at a low cost by disposing a plurality of image pickup elements therein. An image pickup device31is of a focal coincidence type having a plurality of image pickup elements, such as CCD sensors62-1to62-3, arranged in an array. That is, the image pickup device31has an optical system including a first image formation system41for forming an image of focal coincidence, a field lens43disposed in an image formation plane or in the vicinity of the image formation plane of the first image formation system, and a second image formation system group formed by a plurality of second image formation systems arranged in an array and including an image pickup element CCD sensor62-K (K is a value between 1 and 3 in this example) for capturing the image formed on itself and a zoom lens61-K for reforming a predetermined, part of the image formed on the image formation plane on the CCD sensor62-K. The present invention is applicable to a digital still camera and a digital video camera including a plurality of image pickup elements.
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Supplemental European Search Report for European Application No. EP 06 71 1645, dated Apr. 7, 2011, 7 pages.
Hibi Hirofumi
Kokubo Tetsushi
Kondo Tetsujiro
Mukai Hitoshi
Tanaka Kazumasa
Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner L.L.P.
Sony Corporation
Tran Sinh
Wang Kent
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