Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method
AssigneeOlympus Corporation
InventorAyako ASAKURA
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus having not less than three optical systems, and an image pickup element which picks up an object image by the optical system, includes an object-information acquiring section which acquires information of an object, a parallax-amount computing section which computes an amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object, and an optical-system selecting section which selects optical systems for photographing from among not less than three optical systems, based on the amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object, that has been computed by the parallax-amount computing section.
Claims18
An image pickup apparatus which includes not less than three optical systems, and an image pickup element which picks up an object image by the optical system, comprising:
- an object-information acquiring section which acquires information of an object;
- a parallax-amount computing section which computes an amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object;
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- an optical-system selecting section which selects optical systems for photographing from among not less than three optical systems, based on the amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object, that has been computed by the parallax-amount computing section.
An image pickup method comprising:
- an object-information acquiring step of acquiring information of an object;
- a parallax-amount computing step of computing an amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object;
- and
- an optical-system selecting step of selecting optical systems for photographing, from among not less than three optical systems, based on the amount of parallax corresponding to the information of the object, that has been computed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.