Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image pickup
- Patent Title (中): 图像拾取
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Application No.: US12486246Application Date: 2009-06-17
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Publication No.: US08379084B2Publication Date: 2013-02-19
- Inventor: Hideaki Hirai
- Applicant: Hideaki Hirai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-159051 20080618; JP2009-013235 20090123
- Main IPC: H04N7/18
- IPC: H04N7/18

Abstract:
An image pickup including a light emission portion that irradiates an object with near infrared; and an image pickup portion that receives a reflection light image of the object by the near infrared. The image pickup portion includes a lens array containing a substrate on which multiple lenses to respectively receive the reflection light image of the object by the near infrared are arranged; a light shield spacer that shields beams of light that have passed through the lens array from each other; a color filter separated into areas according to beams of light that pass through the light shield spacer, each of which transmits only particular beams of near infrared depending on the wavelengths thereof; and an image pickup element that simultaneously obtains multiple images of the object which are formed of each of the particular beams of near infrared having independent wavelengths that have passed through each of the areas of the color filter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090316025A1 IMAGE PICKUP Public/Granted day:2009-12-24
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