Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus and imaging method
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Application No.: US15810804Application Date: 2017-11-13
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Publication No.: US09958388B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Taro Imagawa
- 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: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-168578 20150828
- Main IPC: G01N21/64
- IPC: G01N21/64

Abstract:
A lighting unit illuminates an object with at least one type of excitation light and illumination light. An imaging unit captures images with at least one type of fluorescent light generated by the object illuminated with the excitation light, and with reflected light caused when the object reflects the illumination light. A fluorescent light detector generates a delay time distribution image of fluorescent light from a fluorescent light image captured by the imaging unit. A distance measuring unit generates a range image from a reflected light image captured by the imaging unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180067046A1 IMAGING APPARATUS AND IMAGING METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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