Image capturing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakumi Uehara
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus (100) including a plurality of image capturing units (10a to 10c) that are arranged with reference to a predetermined axis (101), each of the plurality of image capturing units includes a first optical element (11) arranged at an object side, the first optical element having a first axis (OA1), a second optical element (13) arranged at an image side, the second optical element having a second axis (OA2), a third optical element (12) configured to bend a light beam from the first optical element to be introduced to the second optical element, and an image sensor 14), and in at least one of the plurality of image capturing units, the second optical axis is different from a direction of the predetermined axis.
Claims11
An image capturing apparatus including a plurality of image capturing units that are arranged with reference to a predetermined axis, each of the plurality of image capturing units comprising:
- a first optical element arranged at an object side, the first optical element having a first axis;
- a second optical element arranged at an image side, the second optical element having a second axis;
- a third optical element configured to bend a light beam from the first optical element to be introduced to the second optical element;
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- an image sensor,
- wherein in at least one of the plurality of image capturing units, the second optical axis is different from a direction of the predetermined axis.
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