Image pickup unit, image generation system, server, and electronic unit
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorTadashi Fukami
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Abstract
In an example embodiment, an image pickup unit includes an image pickup lens, a perspective separation device separating light beams passing through the image pickup lens into light beams from a plurality of perspectives different from one another, an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and receiving light beams passing through the perspective separation device in the pixels to output multi-perspective image pickup data, based on an amount of light received, and a data compression section performing reversible compression on the image pickup data.
Claims18
An image pickup unit comprising:
- an image pickup lens;
- a perspective separation device separating light beams passing through the image pickup lens into light beams from a plurality of perspectives different from one another;
- an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and receiving light beams passing through the perspective separation device in the pixels to output multi-perspective image pickup data, based on an amount of light received;
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- a data compression section performing reversible compression on the image pickup data.
An image generation system comprising:
- an image pickup unit, and
- an image processing section acquiring output data from the image pickup unit through a communication line and performing image processing based on the acquired output data,
- the image pickup device comprising:
- an image pickup lens;
- a perspective separation device separating light beams passing through the image pickup lens into light beams from a plurality of perspectives different from one another;
- an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and receiving light beams passing through the perspective separation device in the pixels to output multi-perspective image pickup data, based on an amount of light received;
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- a data compression section performing reversible compression on the image pickup data acquired from the image pickup device to generate the output data.
A server receiving multi-perspective image pickup data reversibly compressed, decompressing the received multi-perspective image pickup data, and performing image processing based on the decomposed multi-perspective image pickup data.
An electronic unit receiving multi-perspective image pickup data reversibly compressed, decompressing the received multi-perspective image pickup data, and performing image processing based on the decomposed multi-perspective image pickup data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.