Imaging device and electronic information instrument
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakeo Ushinaga, Shinji Hattori
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Abstract
A means for correcting tilts and positional deviations from a stereo image is rendered unnecessary. The present invention has a solid-state imaging element 2 on which a plurality of light receiving sections for photoelectrically converting and imaging an image light from a subject are arranged in a matrix pattern and a lens means 3 with a single focal point on an imaging surface of the solid-state imaging element 2. The present invention is configured to simultaneously or chronologically expose and image each imaging light from a subject entering different positions of the lens means 3 as a plurality of images in a plurality of imaging regions for each predetermined imaging regions of the solid-state imaging element 2.
Claims22
An imaging device having a lens means with a single focal point on an imaging surface,
- wherein the imaging device is configured to
- have a solid-state imaging element on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern in the imaging surface,
- have a light shielding layer provided with a single aperture section and a plurality of light receiving regions for separating and receiving diagonal lights that have passed the aperture section in respectively different directions on the pixels,
- separate a light from a subject which has entered the imaging surface into a plurality of lights with different directivity, and photoelectrically convert the light for each of the pixels, and
- simultaneously image the light as a plurality of images.
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