Imaging apparatus and imaging method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorTaro Imagawa
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Abstract
A lighting unit illuminates an object with at least one type of excitation light and illumination light. An imaging unit captures images with at least one type of fluorescent light generated by the object illuminated with the excitation light, and with reflected light caused when the object reflects the illumination light. A fluorescent light detector generates a delay time distribution image of fluorescent light from a fluorescent light image captured by the imaging unit. A distance measuring unit generates a range image from a reflected light image captured by the imaging unit.
Claims19
An imaging apparatus comprising:
- a lighting unit for illuminating an object with an excitation light and an illumination light;
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- an image acquisition unit for capturing an image of a fluorescent light radiated from the object which is illuminated by the excitation light, and an image of a reflected light from the object, which reflects the illumination light as the reflected light, and for calculating and acquiring, based on a delay time from when the excitation light reaches the object to when the fluorescent light is radiated, a delay time distribution image of the fluorescent light.
An imaging method comprising:
- illuminating an object with an excitation light and an illumination light;
- capturing an image of a reflected light from the object, which reflects the illumination light as the reflected light, and an image of a fluorescent light radiated by the object which is illuminated by the excitation light;
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- acquiring a delay time distribution image of the fluorescent light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.