Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
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Application No.: US16679724Application Date: 2019-11-11
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Publication No.: US10852457B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Satoshi Watanabe , Kazuaki Murayama
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz & Volek PC
- Main IPC: G02B3/00
- IPC: G02B3/00 ; H04N5/225 ; G02B21/36

Abstract:
An imaging device of the present invention includes: an imaging optical system that collects light from a subject and forms a primary image of the subject; a microlens array having a plurality of microlenses (5a) that are two-dimensionally arrayed at a position of the primary image formed by the imaging optical system or a position conjugate with the primary image; a relay optical system that relays light collected by the microlenses; a light-receiving part that receives, with a plurality of light-receiving elements, the light relayed by the relay optical system; and an adjusting unit that switches between a first layout state, in which the a plurality of light-receiving elements and back focal positions of the microlenses are conjugate with each other, and a second layout state, in which the plurality of light-receiving elements and principal-point positions of the microlenses are conjugate with each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200073022A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-03-05
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