Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
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Application No.: US16311044Application Date: 2017-09-15
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Publication No.: US10666846B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Masatoshi Yamashita , Norihisa Yoshimura
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@1de620f0
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/033386 WO 20170915
- International Announcement: WO2018/061816 WO 20180405
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; G01B11/14 ; G03B15/05 ; G03B15/06 ; H04N5/232 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T5/20

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a light source, a plurality of lenses disposed adjacent to one another on a predetermined plane, a diffuser plate that diffuses light to be emitted from the light source, and an imaging element that includes a plurality of pixels, the imaging element being configured to receive reflection light generated by causing the light diffused by the diffuser plate to be reflected from a subject. The plurality of lenses are disposed so that a period of interference fringes in the diffused light is less than or equal to three pixels of the imaging element. This configuration can provide the imaging device in which an influence of the interference fringes of the diffused light can be suppressed in an image that is obtained when an image of the subject is captured by irradiating the subject with the light diffused by the diffuser plate having the plurality of lenses.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190335073A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-10-31
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