Image pickup unit and electronic apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorRui Morimoto
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Abstract
There is provided an image pickup unit capable of suppressing occurrence of false color and color mixture and acquiring a color image with high image quality. The image pickup unit includes: an image sensor including a plurality of pixels and acquiring an image pickup data; a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image sensor, and transmitting a selective wavelength; and a filter drive section (a wavelength selection circuit and a system control section) driving the variable filter and thereby setting its transmission wavelength. By acquiring the image pickup data while time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength of the variable filter, pixel data corresponding to the transmission wavelength of the variable filter are acquired in a temporally-successive manner.
Claims14
An image pickup unit comprising:
- an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and outputting an image pickup data;
- a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image pickup device, and configured to allow a selective transmission wavelength of incident light to be variable;
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- a filter drive section driving the variable filter and thereby time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength.
An electronic apparatus with an image pickup unit, the image pickup unit comprising:
- an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels and outputting an image pickup data;
- a variable filter provided on a light receiving face of the image pickup device, and configured to allow a selective transmission wavelength of incident light to be variable;
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- a filter drive section driving the variable filter and thereby time-divisionally switching the transmission wavelength.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.