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Current Assignee
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Patent Inventor Names
Kenji Yamamoto0
Isao Hirota0
Isao Ichimura0
Kengo Hayasaka0
Date of Patent
May 28, 2013
Patent Application Number
12588795
Date Filed
October 28, 2009
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Patent abstract
An image pickup apparatus allowed to obtain parallax information while preventing a decline in apparent resolution. An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup lens having an aperture stop; an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and obtaining image pickup data based on light received on the plurality of pixels; and a microlens array arranged between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device so that one microlens is allocated to 2×2 pixels in the image pickup device. The plurality of pixels are disposed in a fashion of two-dimensional arrangement along two directions rotated a certain angle with respect to a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, respectively.
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