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US 2003/0197791 A1Published application
Apparatus for inputting image and method of inputting the same
AssigneesHiroyuki Ogino, Horiba, Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Ogino
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AssigneesHiroyuki Ogino, Horiba, Ltd.
InventorHiroyuki Ogino
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An apparatus for inputting an image, includes a principal optical system on which a light beam corresponding to a single image is incident; light beam separating means for separating the light beam which passed through the principal optical system into a plurality of light beams; optical receiving and divided image group forming means for receiving the plurality of light beams, respectively, and forming divided image groups, each of said divided image group corresponding to the received light beams; and an image generating means for generating said single image by combining said divided image groups with one another. The single image is composed of the divided images. The number of the divided images is not less than that of the plurality of light beams. Each of the divided image groups has one or a plurality of divided images not adjacent to one another. The optical receiving and divided image forming means have imaging devices corresponding to the divided images, respectively.
An apparatus for inputting an image, comprising:
A method of inputting an image comprising steps of:
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an apparatus for inputting the image and the method of inputting the same utilized in the field of the image processing in general.
2. Prior Art
FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of the apparatus according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows a section for picking up the multiple image separately in FIG. 1 in detail.
FIG. 3 shows an imaging device in FIG. 2 in detail.
Embodiments of the apparatus and the method according to the present invention are described in detail with reference to the drawings, and the corresponding reference numbers represent the corresponding components respectively.
FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of the apparatus according to the present invention. In the embodiment, a light beam corresponding to a single image is incident on a principal optical system 1, and an optical image optically collected and formed by the principal optical system 1 is led through a relay optical system 2 to a multiple optical system 3 as the light beam separating means.
According to the embodiment, as the multiple optical system 3, a beam splitter with a multiple separation prism mirrors 4, 4′ of a parallel beam optical system like a telecentric system, and thus it is possible to reduce the attenuation in the quantity of the light comparatively.