Image pickup apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsToshio Watanabe, Kenji Yamamoto
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus capable of switching between image pickup modes is provided. An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup lens; an image pickup device receiving light from the image pickup lens to obtain image pickup data; an image processing section for performing image processing on the image pickup data obtained from the image pickup device; a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses, and being arranged between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device; and a driving section changing a relative distance between the microlens array section and the image pickup device.
Claims9
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup lens;
- an image pickup device receiving light from the image pickup lens to obtain image pickup data;
- an image processing section for performing image processing on the image pickup data obtained from the image pickup device;
- a microlens array section including a plurality of microlenses, and being arranged between the image pickup lens and the image pickup device;
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- a driving section changing a relative distance between the microlens array section and the image pickup device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.