Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090185157 | PATTERN PROJECTION LIGHT SOURCE AND COMPOUND-EYE DISTANCE MEASUREMENT APPARATUS - A pattern projection light source is disclosed in which a light source ( | 07-23-2009 |
20100053414 | COMPOUND EYE CAMERA MODULE - A compound eye camera module according to the present invention includes a lens array including a plurality of lenses located on the same plane; an imaging section including a plurality of imaging areas on which a plurality of images of a subject formed by the plurality of lenses are projected in a one-to-one relationship, the imaging section converting each of the plurality of projected images into an electric signal; and an optical aperture section including a plurality of optical apertures corresponding to the plurality of lenses in a one-to-one relationship and located oppositely to the imaging section with respect to the lens array. A difference between a linear expansion coefficient of a material used to form the lens array and a linear expansion coefficient of a material used to form the optical aperture section has an absolute value of 0.7×10 | 03-04-2010 |
20100128249 | TEST METHOD FOR COMPOUND-EYE DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS, TEST APPARATUS, AND CHART USED FOR THE SAME - Provided is a test method for accurately testing all regions within a field of view and evaluating, by one-time capturing, accuracy of a distance measured by a compound-eye distance measuring apparatus having two baseline directions. | 05-27-2010 |
20100201809 | CALIBRATION METHOD, CALIBRATION DEVICE, AND CALIBRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING THE DEVICE - To provide highly accurate calibration method or the like for use with a distance measuring device which provides captured images with significant lens aberration. | 08-12-2010 |
20100289895 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS - A distance measuring apparatus according to the present invention determines the distance to an object of range finding based on the amount of parallax between multiple images. The distance measuring apparatus includes: a number of simple lenses L | 11-18-2010 |
20110037964 | DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS AND DISTANCE MEASURING METHOD - A distance measuring apparatus according to the present invention for measuring a distance to an object based on a parallax of images obtained with a plurality of optical systems includes: a reference object ( | 02-17-2011 |
20110205357 | DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - A distance measuring apparatus of the present invention is a distance measuring apparatus for determining a distance to an object, comprising: a plurality of optical systems for forming images of the object; and an image capturing section (N) having a plurality of image capturing areas which are associated with the plurality of optical systems on a one-to-one basis, the image capturing section (N) being configured to convert images of the object formed in respective ones of the image capturing areas through the plurality of optical systems to electric signals, the distance to the object being determined based on a parallax between the images of the object formed through the plurality of optical systems, wherein each of the plurality of optical systems includes n lens surfaces (r | 08-25-2011 |
20110286634 | IMAGING DEVICE AND DISTANCE-MEASURING DEVICE USING SAME - An image capture device according to the present invention includes: a first optical system 10 that has a longitudinal chromatic aberration to cause first, second and third colors to form images at mutually different positions on an optical axis; a first image capturing region Na for generating an image that has a component in at least one of the first, second and third colors by using light that has been transmitted through the first optical system 10; a second optical system 20 that has a different longitudinal chromatic aberration from that of the first optical system 10; a second image capturing region Nb for generating an image that has a component in the same color as the at least one color by using light that has been transmitted through the second optical system 20; and an arithmetic processing section C for generating an output image by using one of the two images that has been generated in the first or second image capturing region Na or Nb so as to have the component in the at least one color apiece and that has the component with the higher degree of sharpness. | 11-24-2011 |
20120026360 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device according to the present invention includes: image side non-telecentric imaging optics including a first lens | 02-02-2012 |
20120268643 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus of the present invention includes: a lens optical system including a lens and a stop; an imaging device including at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels on which light having passed through the lens optical system is incident; and an arrayed optical device arranged between the lens optical system and the imaging device, wherein: the lens optical system includes, in a plane vertical to an optical axis, a first optical area that transmits therethrough light of a first wavelength band and a second optical area that transmits therethrough light of a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band; and the arrayed optical device makes light having passed through the first optical area incident on the plurality of first pixels and light having passed through the second optical area incident on the plurality of second pixels. | 10-25-2012 |
20130070146 | IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND RANGEFINDER DEVICE - An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes a lens optical system L, an imaging device N at least having a plurality of first and second pixels P | 03-21-2013 |
20130120564 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING METHOD - Provided is an imaging device including: a lens optical system L including at least an optical plane area D | 05-16-2013 |
20130141634 | IMAGING DEVICE - An imaging device includes: a lens optical system including a first region and a second region having different optical properties; an imaging element including first pixels and second pixels; an arrayed optical element which is provided between the lens optical system and the imaging element, allows light passing through the first region to enter the first pixels, and allows light passing through the second region to enter the second pixels; a signal processing unit configured to generate object information using pixel values obtained from the first pixels and the second pixels; and a diffractive optical element provided between the arrayed optical element and the lens optical system and including a diffraction grating symmetrical about an optical axis of the lens optical system. | 06-06-2013 |
20130215299 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus according to the present invention includes: a lens optical system L having a first optical region D | 08-22-2013 |
20130293703 | IMAGING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM AND DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE USING IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a lens optical system including a lens and a stop; an imaging; and an array-form optical element located between the lens optical system and the imaging device and including optical components extending in a row direction in a plane vertical to an optical axis of the lens optical system, the optical components being arrayed in a column direction in the plane. The imaging device includes pixel groups, each of which includes first pixels arrayed in the row direction and second pixels arrayed in the row direction at positions adjacent, in the column direction, to the first pixels. The pixel groups are arrayed in the column direction. Border positions between the optical components are respectively offset in the column direction with respect to corresponding border positions between the pixel groups. | 11-07-2013 |
20130293704 | IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a lens optical system, an imaging element and an optical array element. The lens optical system includes first and second areas having different optical characteristics with each other. The imaging element includes first and second pixels each including a filter of a first spectral transmittance characteristic, third pixels including a filter of a second spectral transmittance characteristic, and fourth pixels including a filter of a third spectral transmittance characteristic. The optical array element causes the light passing through the first area to be incident on the first pixels and one of the third and fourth pixels and causes the light passing through the second area to be incident on the second pixels and the other of third and fourth pixels. | 11-07-2013 |
20130329042 | IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE, IMAGE PICK-UP SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICK-UP METHOD - An image pickup apparatus includes: a lens optical system including six regions having such optical characteristics that focal characteristics are made different from one another; an image pickup device having a plurality of pixels on which light beams having passed through the lens optical system are incident; and an arrayed optical device for making light beams having passed through the six regions incident respectively on different pixels on the image pickup device. | 12-12-2013 |
20130341493 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: a lens optical system having first to third regions, the first region transmitting light of a first wavelength band, the second region transmitting light of the first wavelength band and having optical characteristics for providing a different focusing characteristic from a focusing characteristic associated with rays transmitted through the first region, and the third region transmitting light of a second wavelength band; an imaging device on which light having passed through the lens optical system is incident, the imaging device having a plurality of first to third pixels; and a microlens array causing light having passed through the first region to enter the plurality of first pixels, light having passed through the second region to enter the plurality of second pixels, and light having passed through the third region to enter the plurality of third pixels. | 12-26-2013 |
20140028825 | IMAGING-OBSERVATION APPARATUS - An imaging-observation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: an image capturing section that shoots a subject under multiple different shooting optical conditions at the same time and sequentially generates a plurality of images under those multiple different shooting optical conditions; a display control section that accepts an operator's input; an image synthesizing section that synthesizes together the plurality of images in accordance with the input to the display control section at a synthesis ratio specified by the input and sequentially generates synthetic images one after another; and a display section that presents the synthetic images. | 01-30-2014 |
20140055575 | ARRAY OPTICAL ELEMENT, IMAGING MEMBER, IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, AND DISTANCE MEASUREMENT DEVICE - A lens optical system L having areas D1 and D2; an image pickup element N including a plurality of first and second pixels which include a filter having a first spectral transmittance characteristic, a plurality of third pixels which include a filter having a second spectral transmittance characteristic, and a plurality of fourth pixels which include a filter having a third spectral transmittance characteristic; and an array-form optical element K including a plurality of optical components M1 and M2 are included. The plurality of optical components M1 and M2 are arrayed in n number of rows from first through n′th rows (n is an integer of 2 or greater) on a surface of the array-form optical element K. A position of center, in a y direction, of each of the optical components located in a k′th row (1≦k02-27-2014 | |
20140055661 | IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGING SYSTEM - An imaging apparatus disclosed in the present application includes a lens optical system L, an imaging device N including a plurality of first and second pixels P | 02-27-2014 |
20140055664 | IMAGING DEVICE - An image capture device according to the present disclosure includes: a lens optical system L; an image sensor N on which light that has passed through the lens optical system L is incident and which includes at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels; and an array of optical elements K which is arranged between the lens optical system and the image sensor. The lens optical system has a first optical region D | 02-27-2014 |
20140071247 | IMAGE PICK-UP DEVICE AND DISTANCE MEASURING DEVICE - An image pickup device N according to an embodiment includes: an objective lens L with first and second regions D | 03-13-2014 |
20140071317 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - An image pickup apparatus disclosed in this application includes: a lens optical system (L) including a first optical region and a second optical region; an image pickup device (N) including at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels where light transmitted through the lens optical system (L) enters; an area segmented optical attenuator device (W) including a first light control part and a second light control part, which are located in the first optical region and the second optical region, respectively; a control section (V) for changing at least one of a transmittance of the first light control part of the area segmented optical attenuator device and a transmittance of the second light control part of the area segmented optical attenuator device; and an array-patterned optical device (K), which is placed between the lens optical system and the image pickup device, for causing light transmitted through the first optical region to enter the plurality of first pixels and causing light transmitted through the second optical region to enter the plurality of second pixels. | 03-13-2014 |
20140168490 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD - An imaging apparatus of the present invention includes: a lens optical system including a lens and a stop; an imaging device including at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels on which light having passed through the lens optical system is incident; and an arrayed optical device arranged between the lens optical system and the imaging device, wherein: the lens optical system includes, in a plane vertical to an optical axis, a first area that transmits therethrough light of a first wavelength band and a second area that transmits therethrough light of a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band; and the arrayed optical device makes light having passed through the first area incident on the plurality of first pixels and light having passed through the second area incident on the plurality of second pixels. | 06-19-2014 |
20140300721 | IMAGE PICKUP SYSTEM - An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: a polarized light source which emits illuminating light including a component of light that oscillates parallel to a first polarization axis; an image capturing unit IP which is configured to get simultaneously first, second, third and fourth pieces of image information S | 10-09-2014 |
20140362200 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ENDOSCOPE - An embodiment of an image processing apparatus includes: an illuminating section which sequentially irradiates an object with a first and second illuminating light beams polarized in different directions. The section emits the polarized light beams sequentially so that the wavelength ranges of the light beams do not overlap with each other. The apparatus further includes: a polarization image sensor; a polarization mosaic processing section which obtains a first polarization image while the object is being irradiated with the first illuminating light beam and a second polarization image while the object is being irradiated with the second illuminating light beam; a depressed area detecting section which detects a depressed area on the surface of the object based on the polarization images; and an image forming section which forms an image representing the depressed area in an enhanced form. | 12-11-2014 |
20150029321 | MEASURING SYSTEM AND MEASURING METHOD - A measuring system includes: a projecting section Q which is configured to project an image in a predetermined pattern as light within multiple regions of an object; an image capturing section A which is configured to capture the object including those multiple regions; and an arithmetic section G which is configured to calculate and output the degree of light propagated through those multiple regions of the object based on the object's image information that has been gotten by the image capturing section A. | 01-29-2015 |