Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device, imaging system, and imaging method
- Patent Title (中): 成像装置,成像系统和成像方法
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Application No.: US12598292Application Date: 2009-04-07
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Publication No.: US08212912B2Publication Date: 2012-07-03
- Inventor: Tomokuni Iijima , Satoshi Tamaki
- Applicant: Tomokuni Iijima , Satoshi Tamaki
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-102874 20080410
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/001598 WO 20090407
- International Announcement: WO2009/125577 WO 20091015
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225

Abstract:
The number of thermal sensors in an imaging device that requires temperature measurement is reduced. The imaging device includes: a lens array (112) including lenses; an imaging element (122) provided at a predetermined distance from the lens array (112) and having imaging areas respectively corresponding to the lenses; a light-shielding wall (113) which partitions a space between the lens array and the imaging element so as to prevent light entering each of the lenses from reaching the imaging areas different from a corresponding one of the imaging areas; an imaging signal input unit (133) configured to generate an imaging signal by digitalizing an electric signal provided by the imaging element; and a temperature estimation unit (143) configured to calculate, from the imaging signal, a length of an image of the light-shielding wall projected on an imaging plane of the imaging element, and to estimate a temperature using the calculated length of the image of the light-shielding wall.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100128140A1 IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, AND IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2010-05-27
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